> Stanford math professor Brian Conrad found “many misrepresentations” in the shoddy research used to justify the new standards. I recall reading through the d

> Stanford math professor Brian Conrad found “many misrepresentations” in the shoddy research used to justify the new standards. I recall reading through the draft framework and thinking that it seemed like the research citations were unbelievable. For example, it claimed that a student can learn from being wrong, without even knowing that he's wrong. This seems unlikely, because you can't learn the right answer if you say the wrong thing and no one corrects you. I am grateful for Professor Conrad and other experts that spoke out about these many mistakes, and I am mystified at why the framework was adopted in spite of all of these mistakes. As others note, the student who will be most affected are those without involved families. Students whose families are involved in their education will make sure they get supplemental learning if their schools adopt this backwards approach to math.