re: 9+6 = ? "Our young learners might not be altogether comfortable..."

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Common core is idiotic because it sees what higher functioning students are able to do and mistakenly believes that every student can immediately leap to learning the complex calculations without teaching them the basics first.

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Yep. I remember from high school that calculus was easier than trig which was easier than geometry. A lot of it was just learning shortcuts to what you already knew.

But if you don't take the other subjects first you'll be lost.