Posted by Jeremy in DE on October 07, 2015 at 07:34:57 from (70.215.86.189):
In Reply to: Re: Common core. posted by NCWayne on October 06, 2015 at 22:39:59:
NCWayne:
Permit me to respectfully share a different experience.
My children are being taught common core math and I really like it. Now, improperly taught it would be a real disaster. Yet, of course, improperly taught any math curriculum is a real disaster. But properly taught I really like common core.
A friend with children at the same school made an observation: part of the frustration with common core math is that parents didn't learn common core and thus sometimes struggle to help their children when asked a question. But, my friend continued, that doesn't make common core bad in and of itself. And if you review their work regularly (as do he and I) then you will probably understand it and, at least for us, come to like it. (In a school where it is taught well.)
The other facet from my perspective is that I am constantly reminded that many adults never learned math properly with the "old" system. (To be clear some certainly did.) So it's not like we had a perfect teaching method before and have replaced it with something imperfect. We had something imperfect and there is an attempt to replace it with something better though also imperfect.
As for Common Core in other subjects, so far I've not observed a difference worth noting. But again, that may vary by school since schools didn't universally teach other subjects in the same way in the past.
As for states rights; and should the feds dictate standards, etc. Totally different subject. I'll skip that today.
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