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Common Core puts the cart before the horse.
Children should be taught the basics first then tricks and other ways of looking at a problem.
Kids need to memorize the times tables. It’s a basic skill set that needs to be acquired.
These methods make children intellectually hollow.
They are left not understanding why things work.
I swear, all of CC seems to operate under the notion that everyone who lived before now was an idiot and had no idea what they were doing.
Yep that was the generation that won wars on two continents at the same time in three and a half years beginning with no preparation except their limited schooling their American Heritage, and national will to win.