I also corrected her spelling and showed her something pretty simple that corrected her problem....words need vowels.
They had their papers posted outside of their class....poor kids....being taught that wrong spelling is okay...cuz we don't want to hurt your feelings.
> I taught my granddaughter her times tables. The school wasn’t teaching it anymore. <
Please don’t blame the teachers for that. Those decisions are made at the upper administration levels.
A teacher friend of mine was doing a unit on basic multiplication. So she handed out a times table to all her students. No harm in that, right? Well, the principal went ballistic. The teacher was ordered to collect all those times tables the very next day. And she had better get every one back!
The school district’s rationale was that with hand-hand calculators so readily available, times tables are just a wasteful distraction.
So now you know why a fast-food clerk cannot do basic math. It’s not the clerk’s fault. And it’s not the clerk’s teacher’s fault. It’s the fault of idiotic school boards who listen to idiotic “educational consultants”.
“I taught my granddaughter her times tables. The school wasn’t teaching it anymore.”
Back in the dark ages I had Mrs Martin, one of the old blue haired teachers, who had a knack for getting us up to speed on our multiplication tables.
Any kid unable to recite the required table on the assigned day got no recess time until they could.
Didn’t take but two times for me to understand she meant business!
I have a grandson in school now and he hates school. The math doesn’t make sense, the whole word concept is bewildering, etc, etc.
I homeschooled my boys.
Most of their elementary years were tons of reading, and memorizing math rules (like multiplication tables), history and science facts.
It wasn’t until middle school they began to learn to learn how to take the facts they learned and how to apply them to real life situations, or how to write about the concepts.
I see now so many schools try to get young kids to analyze or write about topics before their brains are even able to do that.
Every teacher I know that has had to use common core hates it. My son took some online classes in high school and while they did not advocate common core, they did explain the concepts only because it would show up on the SAT. My son thought it was the stupidest thing ever.
Sadly, teachers are told to discourage rote and recitation, which are necessary tools in the learning toolbox. If a student is not allowed to have or not given the proper tools, a student will not only have trouble learning, but be discouraged to learn.