re: Tell me what you know about common core?

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Without using a calculator or writing it down, what is 79x13?

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If I just now broke this down into 79x10 + 80x3 - 3 did I do common core? B/c that's the way that made sense to me.

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does that matter?

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For your current use? No

If you're trying to teach Math, yes

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 someone asks me to solve 9x8 and I say 72 are they gonna say "whoa whoa there, hold up...did you use MATH for that, or just some mamby pamby memorization?"

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Awesome. Irrelevant, but I enjoyed your story.

I'll choose the method that let's the kids gain an understanding instead of just throwing up an answer. Memorization will come with repetition

To each their own I guess.

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well that sucks. i guess i'm done.


on a side note, had i been taking my Fluids final, and i made this mistake on one of the problems, zero points would have been taken off for that error, assuming my final answer was only wrong b/c of this error.

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I'll tell my boss that when something I designed failed because I transposed a number or did basic math wrong costing my company hundreds of thousands of dollars. My fluids teacher would have given me full credit!

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Common core is meant to give less intelligent kids the same understanding of math that smart kids have. If you give a word problem to both sets of kids, the dumb kids might tell you the answer, but they won't actually understand what it means. They don't have a tangible understanding of what math means. Common core is a way of trying to explain that to them. From what I've seen, it's still way over their heads.

The other use of common core is the 'common' aspect of it. Everyone has to use it, no choice in the matter. It's a way for government to standardize education and run it like an assembly line. Ideally you teach every kid this way and it works. But that's not how education works. Different kids need to learn in different ways, and the best way to do that is more individualized teaching. Smaller class sizes with more attention for each student and more creative teachers that can change their lesson plans to fit the needs of their students is the best way to teach

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I wish Common Core was around when I was in school and I learned math that way. I am awful at math and cannot do it well in my head. The math I do know is generally just memorization or tricks I do to come out to the right answer.

My dad is naturally better with math and the way he describes it sounds JUST like common core. He understands the relation of numbers and can calculate things fairly quickly. I, on the other hand, struggle with even calculating change or giving a tip at a restaurant. I default to 20% just so it's easier.

I'm not disputing the ability to learn math as it is presented. I've viewed the material and have had no problems and neither has the one child I have right now in school. That still does not change the fact little ones need concrete structure at this time in their development. As well a step building process and not just here is the material as it is laid out without building the groundwork and good luck figuring it out. Elementary is where the greatest gaps in the curriculum really stand out. Children think differently than middle schoolers and adult. They are concrete and not abstract. It is the same reason why there are not as many issues with high schoolers struggling. They are able to think abstractly.

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Tell me what you know about common core?
I'll bet at least 80% of you are misinformed.

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My teacher friends claim that Common Core is actually just the set of standards of what they need to teach and the kids need to learn, not actually how they go about teaching it. All the weirdo math work bullshite is actually not supposed to be common core according to my teacher friends.