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> I'm not a fan of common core at all, but I love how it teaches math. When the debate started heating up I took a course on common core. The amount of misconc

> I'm not a fan of common core at all, but I love how it teaches math. When the debate started heating up I took a course on common core. The amount of misconceptions surrounding it are surprising. My favorite probably being that the federal government is mandating it, when it was voluntarily adopted by 43 states. Another is that the images being passed around on Reddit and showing up in your search are the mandated way to teach math. They aren't. Nor are Khan Academy's lessons. It is more about landings than the individual stairs. By landing X student should be able to do Y. What stairs you took in between is your business. Lesson plans are still derived by the teachers, some are just awful at their jobs or themselves have misconceptions that they have to follow a hideous thing done by another teacher in another state.

eglover 12y ago
Sounds like laziness to me, which is of course rampant among teachers. It does amaze me that googling "common core math" brings up the things it does. Even in a world where we have access to all information, everyone seems to be trying to bullshit everything. I find it very difficult to find the facts on most things. But when I saw that Khan Academies methods were starting to mirror "The Great Courses" "Secrets of Mental Math"[1] and that it was a part of the common core, I was impressed. Once I started learning things this way, I was better able to handle all math. I used to hate it, dread it. But this kind of thing makes it easy and fun. I'm glad kids are being exposed to it. [1] http://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/secrets-of-mental-math.html?cid=1406 http://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/secrets-of-mental-mat...
dragonwriter 12y ago
A lot of what people think is required by Common Core is what someone selling something has used Common Core as a selling point (a similar thing happens with HIPAA.)

eglover 12y ago

Sounds like laziness to me, which is of course rampant among teachers. It does amaze me that googling "common core math" brings up the things it does. Even in a world where we have access to all information, everyone seems to be trying to bullshit everything. I find it very difficult to find the facts on most things. But when I saw that Khan Academies methods were starting to mirror "The Great Courses" "Secrets of Mental Math"[1] and that it was a part of the common core, I was impressed. Once I started learning things this way, I was better able to handle all math. I used to hate it, dread it. But this kind of thing makes it easy and fun. I'm glad kids are being exposed to it. [1] http://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/secrets-of-mental-math.html?cid=1406 http://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/secrets-of-mental-mat...

dragonwriter 12y ago

A lot of what people think is required by Common Core is what someone selling something has used Common Core as a selling point (a similar thing happens with HIPAA.)