Posted on 06/17/2018 6:25:25 PM PDT by BobL
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Eight years after California adopted new standards designed to boost students critical thinking and analytical skills, its become clear that a critical group was left behind in the push to implement Common Core: parents.
The good old days of memorizing math formulas or multiplication tables are gone. Instead, Common Core math requires students to show how they reason their way to the right answer. As a result, many parents say homework is far more complicated than it used to be. For example, the right answer to 3×5 isnt just 15 anymore, as one popular social media post noted. Its 3+3+3+3+3. And its 5+5+5. The new methods leave many parents baffled.
I despise common core math, says Katie ODonnell, a pediatric respiratory therapist who lives in San Jose and often uses math at work. Though she loves volunteering in her son Nimas class, she admits she sometimes ducks out early because shes embarrassed that she has no explanations for students who ask for help.
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“Nice racket they got there. “
Absolutely:
1) Give kids methods to do problems which don’t make sense
2) Watch the kids struggle and ‘fail’ at it
3) Tell the parents that their kids are ‘learning impaired’
It’s just a way to arrive at an approximate answer. But, like I said, it’s no way to teach it. Teach it the right way!
Most teachers are not intellectually gifted but are assumed to be.
Given you took the trouble to suss out that fact, you are likely in a position to list those gozintas!
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