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A lot of the backlash against Common Core Mathematics is from people who want Mathematics education to stay that way. You've got it backwards here; the Common
by acheron 11y ago
A lot of the backlash against Common Core Mathematics is from people who want Mathematics education to stay that way.
You've got it backwards here; the Common Core curriculum is basically all "tricks" without understanding.
- plonh 11y agoThis is an utter myth promoted by Glen Beck fanbloggers. Every time one of these attempted potshots goes viral, a sane person like Friendly Atheist patiently explains how ignorant the ranter is.
- 21echoes 11y agoThe explicit, stated strategy of Common Core Mathematics is to emphasize understanding and conceptual learning over rote execution. And it does this, in practice, by teaching multiple different strategies for solving the same problem, and teaching why they all work the same. This, of course, leads to the hyperbolic frothing at the mouth on mommy-blogs and the like when a take-home sheet featuring just one of the many strategies taught is not the vaunted One True Trick that the parent in question learned as a child. Cue blogs titled "I'm a certified public accountant and even I can't do math this way!", which of course proves the very point Common Core is trying to make -- that older generations don't actually even know Math at all, but rather a bag full of tricks without a hint of understanding.