Posted on 06/17/2018 6:25:25 PM PDT by BobL
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Eight years after California adopted new standards designed to boost students’ critical thinking and analytical skills, it’s become clear that a critical group was left behind in the push to implement Common Core: parents.
The good old days of memorizing math formulas or multiplication tables are gone. Instead, Common Core math requires students to show how they reason their way to the right answer. As a result, many parents say homework is far more complicated than it used to be. For example, the right answer to 3×5 isn’t just 15 anymore, as one popular social media post noted. It’s 3+3+3+3+3. And it’s 5+5+5. The new methods leave many parents baffled.
“I despise common core math,” says Katie O’Donnell, a pediatric respiratory therapist who lives in San Jose and often uses math at work. Though she loves volunteering in her son Nima’s class, she admits she sometimes ducks out early because she’s embarrassed that she has no explanations for students who ask for help.
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My advice, although virtually no one bothers following it: Teach your kids reading and math PROPERLY (i.e., traditional math and phonics), and get them 2 years ahead and keep them 2 years ahead. Then, when your kids are told in school, for example, to 'diagram' 3x5, they will already know the answer and with that information they can play the Common Core game with their teacher and probably get the problem 'right'.
Of course the best advice is to simply get your kids out of the public schools...but then what the hell do I know about it?
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“Karen D’Souza” — any relation to Dinesh, of Obama’s “Common Core” sentencing (and recently pardoned by President Trump)?
Math teaches children logic. Obviously they are trying to fix that mistake.
Do I recall correctly that candidate Trump campaigned on getting rid of Common Core?
“...any relation to Dinesh”
I caught that in her name too. I doubt it though...hard to see how the left would let anyone related to Dinesh do that type of work.;
“Of course the best advice is to simply get your kids out of the public schools”
Yup. Thank you Mom and Dad for my private academy education. Besides, all the chicks from other schools in the district liked us because of the jacket and tie uni.
I am no fan of Common Core.
There are many educational approaches to various topics. It’s common for people to say “One method doesn’t work for everyone.” Which is true.
When it came to reading, for many years people taught phonics. It’s a very methodical approach, based on sounds and letter combinations, and various rules about ending some words with an “e” or whatnot depending on whether a word has a long vowel or a short vowel.
The Liberals seemed to have hated phonics. Lots of rules. Very tedious. And, hey, it worked for a lot of people, but it didn’t work for everyone. So — phonics got pushed out of the schools. It was often replaced by Whole Language, which I consider a nightmare.
But, back to math:
Common Core suffers from everything that Phonics suffered from: “Lots of rules. Very tedious. And, hey, it works for a lot of people, but it doesn’t work for everyone.” Abd even worse: it’s somewhat nonsensical. Most people hate it and just think it’s stupid. But they’ve made the darn thing mandatory. One size doesn’t fit all?? Shut up and learn to like it because Common Core is going to shoved down your throats.
Education is a very damaged field. They abandon any technique which clearly works, and they force people to use any technique which doesn’t work. They aren’t trying to produce well-educated kids. They are trying to produce problem kids and thereby justify larger school budgets.
End government schools. They are evil.
And his Education Secretary Betsy Devos has, or is trying. I don’t follow this as much as I would like to, there’s so much going on.
And Bill Gates is a proponent of Common Core and Population Control (like his father and grandfather). The overall plan is becoming so much clearer.
Couldn’t agree more. I have two engineering degrees and when I was helping my granddaughter I couldn’t figure out what they were asking.
The language is Orwellian.
Loved listening to Tom Lehrer since my own "Bright College Days". Too bad he's a died-in-the-wool Leftist.
Well, ¡YEB! (who helped get it staerted) campaigned specifically on keeping it, but I don’t recall Trump diverting much time away from border security, withdrawing from foreign wars, and fixing all the stupid treaties and agreements we have been in in order to address that matter.
Yep, NEVER ENDS. They’ve been doing it for many decades, our side slowly catches on each time, and then the morph into something new.
And the reason they stay ahead of us, despite their HORRIFIC RECORD on ‘education’, is that our side is simply UNABLE to accept who they are and what they want to do to our kids.
Hard to see how things can get fixed...they’ve got us.
My granddaughter is a math whiz, and she became a teacher. When she was a tiny child, she came home with her math homework. She was stuck on multiplication and division. So, I showed her that multiplication is just a shortcut to addition, and division a shortcut to subtraction.
I used simple examples such as the one in the op. In that one sitting, she grasped the concepts and ran with them. She caught on so fast she was ahead of her class.
By the time 4th grade rolled around, she was teaching herself intermediate algebra from my college text books. She understood that book better than I did.
Some of the common core math is ridiculously complicated unless you already have good basics.
Different people have differenSome learning styles, and that goes for kids, too.
Common Core is Liberal insanity.
Good summary! I thought that I was the only one here who questions the ‘wonderful intentions’ of our ‘wonderful leaders’ of education.
Perhaps there is some hope!
Teacher admits he helped write Common Core to end white privilege
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ8Nr3_2724
Having some spunk which I like to think she got from the old man, she confronted her teacher and asked if this was true. When he sheepishly admitted it was, she said he had lied to her!
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