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My mom is a college math teacher, previously a high school math teacher, and helped develop the current Texas standards. She knows a number of the folks who wro

My mom is a college math teacher, previously a high school math teacher, and helped develop the current Texas standards. She knows a number of the folks who wrote the California Common Core and has high praise for it in principle. In practice, she is quite frustrated when she tutors my daughter. She has worked with her Over FaceTime, using Pearson's own remote tutoring app, and over a two week "Grammy Camp" in the summers. Thanks for posting the side-by-side. I wish they would tell the parents something like this, once per testing period or so. My undergrad is in physics and I too struggle with how to help when asked.

bsder 11y ago
> My undergrad is in physics and I too struggle with how to help when asked. In what way? Is it that you're trying to replicate an unfamiliar procedure or an unfamiliar concept. Maybe as an engineer I'm just unusual in that all of the Common Core procedures I have seen so far actually map to the way I calculate in my head. But, I've seen carpenters, woodworkers and machinists all calculate similarly when they do (normally they use advanced geometry to avoid calculating at all).