Posted on 11/01/2014 5:44:42 PM PDT by grundle
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Jennifer Craig stared at her daughter’s fifth-grade math homework. It was a three-digit multiplication problem, and it seemed simple enough. But her 10-year-old was supposed to solve it by drawing a chart, breaking apart numbers, multiplying, adding and maybe more.
“I’m lost,” said Craig, a 31-year-old stay at home mother of three.
And that’s how she found herself in her daughter’s classroom Monday night, sitting alongside other parents in child-size chairs and listening as teacher Alyshia Thomas explained new math strategies.
Most U.S. public school students are learning math very differently than their parents did, due to Common Core State Standards, national K-12 math and reading benchmarks that have been adopted by 43 states and the District of Columbia.
The changes have confused many parents — particularly at the elementary level — leaving them flustered by a basic parental duty: Helping with homework.
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One of the districts near where I work - I tutor 1:1 - most of the teachers started passing out worksheets and skipping all of Common Core stuff. The parents are up in arms against CC - the doctors and lawyers figure if they cannot understand it, what good is it. I tell my clients in that district - ‘teach your kids math the way you learned it, when it made sense.’
Just one more case of bachelor math PhD guys with no experience with kids who cannot remember ever learning math trying to cram their esoteric ways down our throats.
I'm lost and all alone
Common Core math isn't worth the trouble
All I want is just the way it used to be...
Where one times three is three!
Oh darlin' can't you see...
Of course! It is in the best interests of the Government Indoctrination Centers to create ways of forcing children to become more dependent on them.
Please, for your kids sake, home school them or enroll them in a quality, conservative, private school.
I have a sign on our pickup for Richardson for Governor (GOP) (Oregon) and got stopped by a guy the other day as I was out putting up signs....He asked....will Richardson get rid of Common Core? YES, I told him... he said he was told by the school to go to some website so he could help his 9 year old daughter with her math....IF Richardson will get rid of it...he’s voting for HIM, he said!
Math is the easiest to notice but they have propagandized all the other subjects too
what about the other subjects?
This new math probably won’t produce many scientists or accountants.
Common Core math is like explaining to children how Santa Claus fits down the chimney.
YES, I know....but the Math is what most parents can relate to the easiest....history, not so much....since they didn’t likely learn the right history.
Math is really simple and straightforward. Parents should not have to attend classes to learn how to overcomplicate math. Their kids will never learn the basics the way “Common Core” wants to teach math.
Will it take people as long to see through Common Core’s BS as it has to see through Obama’s?
They can't do 2 + 2....
Eventually, the school abandoned Modern Math, but the damage was done. Never did go to college. Couldn't do the math. It even wrecked what little skill I had in basic arithmetic.
I've seen demonstrations of solving arithmetic problems using Common Core. It is the most convoluted and totally asinine way of making calculations. What will happen to these kids if they are forced to do math this way? They won't even be able to make change as cashiers in a McDonald's.
They won’t even be able to make change as cashiers in a McDonald’s. —
Don’t have to, register does the subtraction.
Soon robots will make the burgers.
You ought to see how fast a robot does CC Math!
And, in fact, educators did know how to teach math -- back before WWII. But educators got bored teaching the same way year after year, and they felt a need to mix it up and blaze new trails. It has not worked out well for the kids.
Reading is the same way. Phonics will get 80-90% of the kids reading as well as anyone could wish. But educators decided that Phonics was bad. So they went to "Whole Language" and other awful stuff. Now, perhaps 40% of the kids read well. Great Success!!
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I've seen examples of Common Core.
There is no understanding it.
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