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To: BruceDeitrickPrice

Just in time for the educrats to screw up math instruction with Common Core methods.


10 posted on 12/05/2019 4:56:31 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

“Just in time for the educrats to screw up math instruction with Common Core methods.

I was in school in the early 60s, and they sure managed to screw up math instruction then. New Math, they called it. Tom Leherer did a song about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIKGV2cTgqA

As for phonics vs. whole word, whole word works when the words are simple, visually distinct, and especially for the ones that don’t follow “The Rules” and are difficult to sound out. Many of them are among those on Dolch word list. Get them memorized, and you can read all about Spot. Look! See Spot. See Spot Run. Run, Spot! Run! If you don’t get something more interesting to read real soon, you realize that the reason Spot is running is so he won’t get bored, and you tune out.


21 posted on 12/05/2019 5:26:39 PM PST by Old Student (As I watch the balkanization of our nation I realize that Robert A. Heinlein was a prophet.)
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