Common Core basically teaches things to kids in ways which aren't needed to get the point across, which is why the car (which is supposedly built by this system) is all mixed and jumbled up.
Common core math, as far as I can tell, is demanding students use the associative and commutative properties without actually teaching the kids what they are first. Granted, it's using head tricks I used for math since like second grade, but it's not something that can be taught as a regimented curriculum without actually explaining why it works.
It's like telling kids that they'll use cursive for the rest of their lives. Cursive is useless. If you're taking notes in a hurry, you're not focusing on penmanship. You're scrambling words and letters to make some vaguely reasonable order for later review.
That's not cursive, it's just letters close enough together that they look connected.
Cursive is like a nice suit/dress: you wear it to look good in public, but at home you may as well just wear some comfortable old sweats.
I dunno how much you trust wikipedia, but wikipedia actually backs me up on this. "The origin of the cursive method is associated with practical advantages of writing speed and infrequent pen lifting to accommodate the limitations of the quill."
some people don't think it's useful is probably because they don't know how to use it. It's quick, and because it's quick you can take notes with it, taking notes by hand helps you retain information much more than taking notes on a computer. I was at a training and all the adults 40 and over were taking notes using cursive and we had to wait and wait and wait for the younger generation to finish their notes by printing. VERY annoying. I'm not blaming the younger generation but am blaming the government for not letting educators teach cursive because students have to learn common core and other nonsense that will not help them in real life.
I like cursive but common core math is really hard for me to do in high school when all through grade school I was never taught that and the way they want it taught and teachers with common core expect you to be able to teach it to yourself and I've never been taught the way before so it was a shock when it was implemented and I had to learn this totally different way now after years and years of the old standards
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Just remember, it's not the teachers who are enforcing common core. It's the government. We realize it's stupid also.
Fortunately my parents pulled me out before I could get too indoctrinated. What's an example of what CC makes you do that you would ordinarily do another way?
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I can't think of one at the moment but they make you go through so many more steps than you would if you learned the way they used to teach
That's an example: In geometry we'd have to do like investigations to figure out the rule for the formula by doing things that were totally not related instead of just being given the formula and practicing using it. So like it was here's a piece of paper measure it and what does this relate to and how can we use this to help us in this lesson and what can we find out from measuring this and than after we did this than we would be given the formula
Yeah that was sophomore year! I wish you the best of luck with your daughters education! My school because of its private affiliation stopped using common core after last year
Cursive is like a nice suit/dress: you wear it to look good in public, but at home you may as well just wear some comfortable old sweats.
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