Hilarious
Common core arithmetic/math seems designed to prevent the students from learning basic functions. It complicates the simplest problems. Rote learning was used for centuries and worked very well for the vast majority of students. The “leaders” of the educational establishment thought they could improve what worked by replacing it with a counter-intuitive system that is clunky, unwieldy and confusing. Just like “whole word” language versus phonics.
Unfortunately, it’s the children who will pay for such idiocy. Both now and in the future.
WTG!!
Mr. Hermann....you aren't a good parent if you keep your child in this school.
I think we should support Common Core Fully, So Much so that we should be Demanding it be taught in EVERY SCHOOL IN AMERICA, Private and Public. It will be repealed within 1 week if we subject the children of the Ruling Class to the same standards.
The sad thing is that this is just the newest way to hold our kids back in math. Thirty plus years ago when I ran fast food I would train new managers on taking inventory, I was really worried then when the people had to use a calculator for math I did in my head. When I look at the crap they are teaching to my grandson I want to scream.
Looks like a computing method used by a disturbed mind.
Maybe it was devised to divorce parents from being of any help to their kids.
CC is nothing but government sanctioned child abuse.
The question 4 and 5 at the end of the post are truly moronic, even insane.
You have to do two additions or two subtractions by their method in order to do one subtraction, AND of top of that you have to use some rather sophisticated logic (base 10 number system) that’s more appropriate for a college course.
$16.34 ?
Bump.
I don’t “speak” Common Core. Can ANYONE tell me how much that check is for? And (asking a LOT), explain it? TIA!
Well .. just vote for Ted Cruz to be President, and CommonCore will be vanquished.
Common Core is a deliberately and maliciously created crime against humanity.
I wonder if the elementary school was able to cash it?
If they tried he bank teller probable laughed her head off.
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None of the above.
16-9=7
Common Core is useful for building serfs
Apparently, Sidwell Friends School does not use Common Core.
I thought Quakers were all about equality. Curious.
And their school lunch menu is not in step with the DC public schools. Also curious.