[BigEdLB]

My 8th grade middle schooler hates Common Core Algebra. When I try to explain Algebra the way I learned it, he tells me he can’t do it that way...

[BitWielder1]

My 8th grade middle schooler hates Common Core Algebra. When I try to explain Algebra the way I learned it, he tells me he can’t do it that way...

Tell him it won't hurt him one bit to know two different ways to do something, then he can choose which one works best for him.

[tbw2]

I actually blew up at my elementary school aged child’s teacher over this.
When we couldn’t understand the common core methods and did it the old fashioned way and got the right answers, she counted the problems wrong for using the wrong method.

As if 40x39 is better solved as 40x40 and then subtracting 40 as the STANDARD way to do it, when teaching the kid 40x39 means they can solve 38x38, etc.

The other idiocy is renaming everything from takeaways to matrix math, and then acting as if parents are the idiots when they have to be given translation sheets. The teacher tried to say we couldn’t do 3rd and 4th grade math because we weren’t good at it. I explained that if two engineers who use Calculus and linear algebra each day for work and a spouse who tutored differential equations don’t understand the assignment, it isn’t because we are bad at math.

[goodnesswins]

Get together with all the ither patents in his class....get them to all do it the correct (old) way...
Hold a weekly class at your home uf you have to...or local eaterie...they cant flunk all the students