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Anonymous wrote:I asked my husband to help my child with her math homework because I had a meeting. He didn't watch the instructions, he didn't look at the written instructions, he just told DD how he thought she should do it. She got the right answer, but the show your work part was completely different from what she learned in today's math lesson (I sit in the next room, I heard part of the lesson)! He didn't take the time to listen to the instructions, he didn't ask DD what she learned in today's lesson, he just plowed ahead and told her how to do it his way. He doesn't get that we have to reinforce the lessons that the teacher is teaching. I'm so annoyed because it just ends up confusing DD more and more, and then I turn into the bad guy because I asked her to do it over the way she learned in today's lesson. So annoying!!!!
I'm going to respecfully disagree. It is just good practice to teach multiple methods for solving math problems. Do you want your kid to understand how math works in general or do you want your kid to memorize a single solution?
It sounds like you don't have a kid in DL right now or you wouldn't type this. You don't get credit if you don't show your work
and have it line up with the lesson.
Plus if you know anything about the differences in the way math was taught during OP's DH's elementary years and now you would never say that doing it dad's way was "understand[ing] how math works" and common core is "memoriz[ing] a single solution." That's completely backwards.
Actually, I do have kids in DL. The 'my way or the higway' approach to math has been around longer than you think. My teachers didn't like alternative solutions either, but, frankly, 'credit' was never much concern. If you think common core teaches anything beyond a single solution approach you are delusional.
Common core is not based on memorization. It's based on understanding how the math works, behind the numbers.
Okay, if you're fine with your kid getting a zero on an assignment they completed and turned in in order to stick it to the man or be the cool chick who dgaf about her lazy husband, we just have different priorities. And that's fine!
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