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Why parents struggle with Common Core math: “The diagrams are absolutely insane.”
San Jose Mercury News ^ | June 17, 2018 | Karen D'Souza

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, it’s 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 isn’t just 15 anymore, as one popular social media post noted. It’s 3+3+3+3+3. And it’s 5+5+5. The new methods leave many parents baffled.

“I despise common core math,” says Katie O’Donnell, a pediatric respiratory therapist who lives in San Jose and often uses math at work. Though she loves volunteering in her son Nima’s class, she admits she sometimes ducks out early because she’s embarrassed that she has no explanations for students who ask for help.

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Until parents are able to accept the fact that Common Core is DESIGNED to screw over their kids, they will continue to waste their time trying to understand it and trying to 'teach' it to their kids. Same for Sight Words, the latest incarnation of Whole Language reading.

My advice, although virtually no one bothers following it: Teach your kids reading and math PROPERLY (i.e., traditional math and phonics), and get them 2 years ahead and keep them 2 years ahead. Then, when your kids are told in school, for example, to 'diagram' 3x5, they will already know the answer and with that information they can play the Common Core game with their teacher and probably get the problem 'right'.

Of course the best advice is to simply get your kids out of the public schools...but then what the hell do I know about it?

1 posted on 06/17/2018 6:25:26 PM PDT by BobL
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To: BobL

Not new.

‘New Math’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIWaJ0sy03g


2 posted on 06/17/2018 6:28:17 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: wattojawa

Ping (squared)


3 posted on 06/17/2018 6:28:24 PM PDT by lightman (ANTIFA is full of Bolshevik.)
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To: BobL

“Karen D’Souza” — any relation to Dinesh, of Obama’s “Common Core” sentencing (and recently pardoned by President Trump)?


4 posted on 06/17/2018 6:30:30 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: BobL

Math teaches children logic. Obviously they are trying to fix that mistake.


5 posted on 06/17/2018 6:31:10 PM PDT by Vic S
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To: Vic S

Do I recall correctly that candidate Trump campaigned on getting rid of Common Core?


6 posted on 06/17/2018 6:34:08 PM PDT by Freee-dame (Best election ever!)
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To: grey_whiskers

“...any relation to Dinesh”

I caught that in her name too. I doubt it though...hard to see how the left would let anyone related to Dinesh do that type of work.;


7 posted on 06/17/2018 6:36:50 PM PDT by BobL (I drive a pick up truck because it makes me feel like a man)
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To: BobL

“Of course the best advice is to simply get your kids out of the public schools”

Yup. Thank you Mom and Dad for my private academy education. Besides, all the chicks from other schools in the district liked us because of the jacket and tie uni.


8 posted on 06/17/2018 6:38:21 PM PDT by max americana (Fired libtard employees 9 consecutive times at every election since 08'. I hope all liberals die.)
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To: BobL

I am no fan of Common Core.

There are many educational approaches to various topics. It’s common for people to say “One method doesn’t work for everyone.” Which is true.

When it came to reading, for many years people taught phonics. It’s a very methodical approach, based on sounds and letter combinations, and various rules about ending some words with an “e” or whatnot depending on whether a word has a long vowel or a short vowel.

The Liberals seemed to have hated phonics. Lots of rules. Very tedious. And, hey, it worked for a lot of people, but it didn’t work for everyone. So — phonics got pushed out of the schools. It was often replaced by Whole Language, which I consider a nightmare.

But, back to math:

Common Core suffers from everything that Phonics suffered from: “Lots of rules. Very tedious. And, hey, it works for a lot of people, but it doesn’t work for everyone.” Abd even worse: it’s somewhat nonsensical. Most people hate it and just think it’s stupid. But they’ve made the darn thing mandatory. One size doesn’t fit all?? Shut up and learn to like it because Common Core is going to shoved down your throats.

Education is a very damaged field. They abandon any technique which clearly works, and they force people to use any technique which doesn’t work. They aren’t trying to produce well-educated kids. They are trying to produce problem kids and thereby justify larger school budgets.

End government schools. They are evil.


9 posted on 06/17/2018 6:38:22 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Yes, I get it - racism is bad and mutual respect and inclusion is good. But value Truth too.)
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To: Freee-dame

And his Education Secretary Betsy Devos has, or is trying. I don’t follow this as much as I would like to, there’s so much going on.

And Bill Gates is a proponent of Common Core and Population Control (like his father and grandfather). The overall plan is becoming so much clearer.


10 posted on 06/17/2018 6:38:37 PM PDT by Vic S
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Couldn’t agree more. I have two engineering degrees and when I was helping my granddaughter I couldn’t figure out what they were asking.

The language is Orwellian.


11 posted on 06/17/2018 6:39:01 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: jjotto
‘New Math’

Loved listening to Tom Lehrer since my own "Bright College Days". Too bad he's a died-in-the-wool Leftist.

12 posted on 06/17/2018 6:39:07 PM PDT by ssaftler (It's not the "deep state". It's the "odoriferous oligarchy")
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To: Freee-dame

Well, ¡YEB! (who helped get it staerted) campaigned specifically on keeping it, but I don’t recall Trump diverting much time away from border security, withdrawing from foreign wars, and fixing all the stupid treaties and agreements we have been in in order to address that matter.


13 posted on 06/17/2018 6:40:02 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: jjotto

Yep, NEVER ENDS. They’ve been doing it for many decades, our side slowly catches on each time, and then the morph into something new.

And the reason they stay ahead of us, despite their HORRIFIC RECORD on ‘education’, is that our side is simply UNABLE to accept who they are and what they want to do to our kids.

Hard to see how things can get fixed...they’ve got us.


14 posted on 06/17/2018 6:40:35 PM PDT by BobL (I drive a pick up truck because it makes me feel like a man)
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To: BobL

15 posted on 06/17/2018 6:40:39 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: BobL

My granddaughter is a math whiz, and she became a teacher. When she was a tiny child, she came home with her math homework. She was stuck on multiplication and division. So, I showed her that multiplication is just a shortcut to addition, and division a shortcut to subtraction.

I used simple examples such as the one in the op. In that one sitting, she grasped the concepts and ran with them. She caught on so fast she was ahead of her class.

By the time 4th grade rolled around, she was teaching herself intermediate algebra from my college text books. She understood that book better than I did.

Some of the common core math is ridiculously complicated unless you already have good basics.

Different people have differenSome learning styles, and that goes for kids, too.


16 posted on 06/17/2018 6:42:14 PM PDT by PrairieLady2
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To: Freee-dame

Common Core is Liberal insanity.


17 posted on 06/17/2018 6:42:41 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: ClearCase_guy

Good summary! I thought that I was the only one here who questions the ‘wonderful intentions’ of our ‘wonderful leaders’ of education.

Perhaps there is some hope!


18 posted on 06/17/2018 6:43:58 PM PDT by BobL (I drive a pick up truck because it makes me feel like a man)
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To: BobL

Teacher admits he helped write Common Core to end white privilege

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ8Nr3_2724


19 posted on 06/17/2018 6:44:09 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>https://i.imgur.com/zXSEP5Z.gif)
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To: BobL
A few years ago one of my daughters was struggling with how to figure the area of various shapes. I looked at her textbook and realized it didn't have the formulas. So, I printed them from the Internet and showed her how they worked. She didn't believe me it could be that simple.

Having some spunk which I like to think she got from the old man, she confronted her teacher and asked if this was true. When he sheepishly admitted it was, she said he had lied to her!

20 posted on 06/17/2018 6:44:24 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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