Are You As Smart As a 5th Grader
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Before they called it Common Core, it was Fuzzy Math and Constructivist Math, Problem Based Math, etc. made particularly famous by a curriculum called Connected Mathematics. Fought this garbage for years. It makes administrators particularly angry when you pull out professional educators studies and articles by professors who prove it doesn’t work. Good times...
Yea, the problem with Common Core as I see it? It just teaches stuff that most people of average intelligence do subconsciously in their head when doing math on paper, but don't write down. It's beyond retarded to 'teach' that, because imo it can't be taught, because those of who do those mental calculations have been doing it instinctively since we started learning proper math.
The biggest problem with common core is that parents can't help their kids with their homework - it's so jacked up, we don't get it! When we put our son in private school this past year, a whole new world of being able to help him with homework opened up. Now he's excelling. Common core was holding him back.
It's pandering to the dimwits, in other words, at the expense of everyone else. Should just put those students in another class.