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In the 2012-13 school year, Sioux Falls public schools started rolling out new K-5 math curriculum tailored to Common Core. The same year, the number of home-school students in the district doubled.
Welcome to the world of Common Core math. Instead of memorizing facts and formulas, students today learn math by puzzling out answers and then exploring concepts that the formulas represent.
Common Core is supposed to help prepare students for college, yet 43% of the students don’t start college. Of those that do, 24% drop out the first year, and only 29% continue on to graduation.
Do you remember the days when 5+5=10? For parents who grew up in the ’80s and ’90s, it was that simple. But now, as many of us help our kids with their homework using the new Common Core math ...
I am also a math teacher of 7th and 8th grades, and am familiar with many of the Common Core aligned books in use. I don’t doubt Radley’s experiences with the books.
Common Core appears to have failed in its purpose of raising educational standards across the board. Instead, test scores are down and some states are weighing withdrawing from the program.
I can’t tell you how often I have dealt with snarky or enraged parents who vent about “Common Core math” and how awful it is. It’s even indirectly addressed in The Incredibles 2.
Is Common Core math another bad idea, like New Math fiasco? Re: “A common frustration: Parents, forget what you know about math — Common Core is ‘absolutely insane’,” (Page A1, June 17): ...
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.
Maybe Common Core is a blessing in disguise, creating a groundswell of opposition to the nonsense of progressivist math. He lays out the traditionalist approach that future standards should embody.
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