[Red Badger]

.... and the Left went insane when Talking Barbie said “Math is hard!”.....................

[Calvin Locke]

Channel surfing, a came across a mention of common core, and went back. The president of the National Urban League was propagandizing the benefits of commie core.

I think it was on LOGO TV. Then they ran the commercial again. I went back to surfing.

[paladinan]

Yep. One might improvise the old quip from the Army, to describe Common Core (and its many twisted cousins who have invaded public education since the time of Dewey):

1) If it makes sense, rework it.
2) If it doesn’t make sense, mandate it. (An education department chair’s job may depend on the revenues, after all!)

[tpmintx]

What happens when these Common Core kids get to college and start trying to learn Calculus?

Common Core seems guaranteed to purge the US work-force of native-born engineers. Only people who learned MATH at a young age will have enough math skills to become engineers. This means Chinese and Indian kids.

[pepsi_junkie]

Common Core teacher to student in every school district: "I don't care that you added the numbers and got the right answer. You aren't to do it that way. You have to do it by drawing pictures of everything and then counting them on your fingers. It's better this way."

Or "Yes I see you got the actual answer but you should have estimated instead, to get a close answer. So you get it wrong."

[ctdonath2]

Seems the goal is to teach advanced thinking before basic notions. I understand what this craziness is trying to do in each example, and it resembles how I mentally break down numbers and manipulate them - but I have _decades_ of advanced mathematical experience, and would NEVER try to teach my methods to a raw beginner. Start with basics and build up ... convoluted breakdown of constituent pieces without comprehension is stupid. CC is like trying to teach basic biology by starting with quantum mechanics.