Why?
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http://www.educationviews.org/engineer-explains-common-core-math-disaster/
(From deep within the article)
The reform mathematicians who put together Common Core are ignoring cognitive development. My Common Core pre-algebra students are hurried through the arithmetic review and taught the coordinate system. They graph lines and parabolas. They do transformations, exponents (including zero and negative exponents), and a truly horrendous percentage of percentage problems. The homework can be finished in an hour if the student’s parents can afford to hire a BS mechanical engineer to sit at his elbow and remind him when he takes a wrong turn. Otherwise, he is up ’til midnight. Students work hard at tasks beyond their strength; they flounder; they fail; they learn that math is no fun.
This isn’t education. This is child abuse.
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(Still looking for a simple explanation as to why 'common core' don't work.)
Zim.
Mad Poet Strikes Again.
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