I suppose Common Core is a way of providing diversity in math. It wipes out all the centuries-old ways of working math that actually make sense and teach kids to think for themselves. But then that’s not diversity is it? That’s being in lockstep. Actually math has a lot of diversity in it, there’s usually multiple ways to work any problem. That’s what’s neat, you can double check your answers by working it from another point of you. But not with common core! It takes complete understanding of mathematics away. Just more dumbing-down and stopping people from learning how to think for themselves. I can’t believe Trump hasn’t done away with it. Kind of surprising.
Common core math is crazy! Texas never accepted it in their schools. I was helping my grandson with his homework when he was in 3rd grade, and it looked like common core. I went to the CC website for teachers, and there was the paper, his teacher had downloaded it. I let her know she wasn’t supposed to be teaching that nonsense.
They teach that if they do the process as they are told, that’s more important than getting the right answer! That is outlandish!
Betsy DeVos said Common Core was ‘dead’ – it’s not
https://wtop.com/education/2018/03/betsy-devos-said-common-core-was-dead-its-not/