One of the districts near where I work - I tutor 1:1 - most of the teachers started passing out worksheets and skipping all of Common Core stuff. The parents are up in arms against CC - the doctors and lawyers figure if they cannot understand it, what good is it. I tell my clients in that district - ‘teach your kids math the way you learned it, when it made sense.’
Just one more case of bachelor math PhD guys with no experience with kids who cannot remember ever learning math trying to cram their esoteric ways down our throats.
what about the other subjects?
Eventually, the school abandoned Modern Math, but the damage was done. Never did go to college. Couldn't do the math. It even wrecked what little skill I had in basic arithmetic.
I've seen demonstrations of solving arithmetic problems using Common Core. It is the most convoluted and totally asinine way of making calculations. What will happen to these kids if they are forced to do math this way? They won't even be able to make change as cashiers in a McDonald's.
It’s “educators” with no real world experience trying to teach advanced thinking they don’t really understand to those unprepared to grasp it.
I blew up at my son’s teacher when she counted a multiplication problem wrong that had the right answer but not the Common Core method. She said we had to show the reasoning and the multi-step method. I said 58x58 written traditionally did show the answer, and got the right one.
She implied we were bad at math, hence we didn’t get it. I explained that as two engineers, with a husband who tutored others in algebra, Calculus and thermodynamics, if we didn’t get the third grade math, the problem was the technique, not the parents.