**Critics have argued the new standards may be too challenging. **
Not! I subbed in a classroom today where I could not believe the weird math program. No drill -- just playing games.
Alarming!
What kind of games? I've seen one try at a different approach to math education at the adult level at a community college. To the uninitiated, it would look like it was just playing. But, the adults who were completely turned off to math at some point, actually were able to grasp the concepts through a different approach that let them discover the basic concepts. This was for teaching adults such things as fractions and multiplication. The same approach - what looked like playing games - was also used for other things as well. They still had to pass the same exit exams as students in a more traditional setting. Drill isn't always the best way to teach something, especially math.