A Teacher’s Aide & School CEO Were Asked About Common Core.

Independent Journal ^ | June 25,2016 | Y KAYLA BRANDON

[Hojczyk]

When Independent Journal Review asked Donald Hense, Chair and CEO of Friendship Public Charter Schools in D.C., if he felt that Common Core’s way of solving math problems is working, he said “give it time”

:We’re no longer saying 2 + 2 = 4; it has taken some time and it’s going to take some time for teachers to become proficient.”et,

I’ve met two teachers’ assistants, who make less than 12K a year, one who had been on the job for 20 years. Through tears, she said, “we were there to help these confused students after the lessons, with their homework; Common Core math was impossible for them and for us. I felt so inadequate, I had to leave the kids, this was the last straw.”

[Ozark Tom]

Mathematical equivalent of teaching whole-word literacy.

[Ozark Tom]

So you are pulling something like the renormalization of gauge fields routine on basic math to force the answer forth???

[redangus]

Fifteen is not a multiple of ten.

[Nifster]

my bad should have been multiples of five....because they are up until you hit 30 and you can’t do 35 because it is larger

it is still a stoooooopid way to teach addition

[redangus]

So in order to learn how to subtract a student has to know how to multiply and divide first, yeah that's the ticket. Why not use 8 instead of three for your first number it works. This was quite a topic of discussion on the Fourth. My nephew has a first grader being afflicted with this crap. Him and his wife are both computer nerds with strong math backgrounds and had trouble initially figuring out the point of the exercises. When they talked to the teacher she refused to explain it to them saying they weren't educators and wouldn't understand it. That meeting didn't end well😁.

[Nifster]

That so called teacher didn’t understand it so she couldn’t explain it

Your other comments are spot on