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Instead of trying to learn this nonsense, the parents should move their children to a better school.
1 posted on 11/01/2014 5:44:42 PM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle

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.


2 posted on 11/01/2014 5:47:48 PM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: grundle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_Mathematics_Study_Group


3 posted on 11/01/2014 5:48:41 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: grundle
“I’m lost,” said Craig, a 31-year-old stay at home mother of three.

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...

4 posted on 11/01/2014 5:48:46 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Thank you for self-censoring.)
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To: grundle; metmom
The changes have confused many parents — particularly at the elementary level — leaving them flustered by a basic parental duty: Helping with homework.

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.

5 posted on 11/01/2014 5:49:44 PM PDT by upchuck (The language of government now is word-spew. ~ h/t Peggy Noonan)
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To: grundle

http://www.math.rochester.edu/people/faculty/rarm/smsg.html


6 posted on 11/01/2014 5:50:30 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: grundle

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!


7 posted on 11/01/2014 5:52:05 PM PDT by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods)
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To: grundle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIWaJ0sy03g


8 posted on 11/01/2014 5:52:48 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: grundle

This new math probably won’t produce many scientists or accountants.


11 posted on 11/01/2014 5:53:52 PM PDT by umgud (I couldn't understand why the ball kept getting bigger......... then it hit me.)
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To: grundle

Common Core math is like explaining to children how Santa Claus fits down the chimney.


12 posted on 11/01/2014 5:54:36 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: grundle

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.


14 posted on 11/01/2014 6:01:19 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: grundle

Will it take people as long to see through Common Core’s BS as it has to see through Obama’s?


15 posted on 11/01/2014 6:01:43 PM PDT by polymuser ( Enough is enough.)
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To: grundle
Yeh....Rochester NY....where the high school graduation rate is about 40%.

They can't do 2 + 2....

16 posted on 11/01/2014 6:04:21 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: grundle
From the examples of Common Core math I have seen, I have the impression that Common Core codifies methods that students who are terrible at math use to attempt to solve problems, and forces all students to use those flawed methods.

From the article:

"In the real world, simplification is favored over complication."

Exactly.

Do test scores show that Common Core works?

21 posted on 11/01/2014 6:19:16 PM PDT by TChad (The Obamacare motto: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.)
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To: grundle

Five of the 29 members of the Common Core Validation Committee (including the only mathematics expert) refused to sign a report attesting that the standards are research-based, rigorous and internationally benchmarked. The report was released with 24 signatures and included no mention that five committee members refused to sign it...

...No member of the Validation Committee had a doctorate in English literature or language and only one held a doctorate in math. He was one of only three members with extensive experience writing standards. Two of the three refused to sign off on the standards.

http://pioneerinstitute.org/featured/common-core-english-and-math-standards-not-properly-validated/


24 posted on 11/01/2014 6:25:46 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Any energy source that requires a subsidy is, by definition, "unsustainable.")
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To: grundle
Teacher takes 56 secs to explain 9+6:

http://toprightnews.com/?p=5609

28 posted on 11/01/2014 7:37:46 PM PDT by Senior1
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To: grundle

Parents around here are getting petitions to get the garbage out of the schools.


29 posted on 11/01/2014 8:22:26 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: grundle

None of us are as dumb as all of us. Go to school to get dumber so you to can pretend to know common core.


30 posted on 11/01/2014 8:36:22 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: grundle

the whole purpose is the same as the “new math” in the 60s.

It it make it so that parents can’t help the students.


31 posted on 11/01/2014 8:52:16 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: grundle

Didn’t we go through this new math back in the 70s? it was a disaster then too.


32 posted on 11/01/2014 11:29:03 PM PDT by Conservative4Ever (waiting for my Magic 8 ball to give me an answer)
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To: grundle

This is hilarious. Keep playing the rigged game, dopes. My homeschooled kids will be ordering your kids around in a few years due simply to your “trying to make the system work.”


36 posted on 11/02/2014 4:52:26 AM PST by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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