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Location: Sodo Sopa at The Villas above Kenny' s House.
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Those 2 words literally cause a physical reaction in me. It's not the idea it's the a**backwards implementation and the fact that even though I'm literate and college educated I apparently can't help my kid with simple math because I'm not an artist or someone who wants to spend 20 min solving something that used to take seconds.
Those 2 words literally cause a physical reaction in me. It's not the idea it's the a**backwards implementation and the fact that even though I'm literate and college educated I apparently can't help my kid with simple math because I'm not an artist or someone who wants to spend 20 min solving something that used to take seconds.
Location: Sodo Sopa at The Villas above Kenny' s House.
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I understand the concept but it's so drastically different in its methods that without teacher to parent instruction it's impossible to replicate how they want it done. I feel helpless when my daughter doesn't remember how she is supposed to do the problems because it's not any way similar to how the majority of adults learned to do them. Very frustrating....
How many times have you heard " No we can't do it that way"? To which I reply "well how did she show you"? " I don't remember.....
Common Core does not dictate methods, only standards. So while 3rd graders need to know multiplication tables by the end of the year, it doesn't state how that must be accomplished. It's up to the school district to choose which curriculum to follow, to meet the standards. I think a lot of times, Common Core is blamed, when it's really the curriculum that is difficult to for kids (and parents) to grasp.
I had to ask my first grader's teacher how to do some of her math homework, because I didn't know the method they were using, and my child didn't remember how to do it. It wasn't the standard algorithm I had learned, 35+ years ago. But, it wasn't really that big of a deal. The teacher showed me, I understood, and I was able to help my child. I could see that the object was to teach a conceptual understanding of the process, and not just the quickest method to solve the problem. They did learn the standard, old-fashioned way, too, in 2nd grade.
Location: Sodo Sopa at The Villas above Kenny' s House.
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The part about every student learning the same thing at same time isnt the problem. My daughter is in 2nd grade and they never learned any of the old fashioned way. Just the new ways which happened to coincide with common core implementation . So even though I understand the difference , it all goes together when people think about common core in its practice.
The NC legislature voted to repeal CCSS, but until they put something else in its place, they're continuing to use them.
I know I'm in the minority here, but I actually like them, for the most part.
There are parts of CC that I like, too, particularly with language arts. However, when a child is marked wrong because they can solve a math equation in 2 steps instead of 20, that is ridiculous. And yes, that does happen. Personally I am glad to be done with elementary school. It's not so bad in the higher grades.
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