Common Core: one goal is by the end of kindergarten, kids can count to 100 by 1s and 10s. ???

[Anonymous]

I was at a recent school open house, and one of the kindergarten teachers said that for math, per the Common Core curriculum, one of the school's goals is that by the end of kindergarten all kids are able to count to 100, by 1s and 10s.

Can this be right?? Is this really the level of expectations under the Core Curriculum? I would have thought most kindergarteners can already count to 100 when they show up for kindergarten. This makes me really, really sad. Did I misunderstand?

[Anonymous]

No. This is why so many parents are dissatisfied.

[Anonymous]

Really, do you all have a budding genius or go to 5 years of preschool or something? My dd went to part-time preschool for 3 years, and she can now reliably count to 20 or 30, but she is not able to count to 100 by 1's and 10's yet. She certainly didn't show up to K with that ability. Do you want your K student to be doing calculus or something? You know some kids that are very advance academically have other issues such as autism.

[Anonymous]

OP - that may be one of their goals for K math - but it likely isn't the only goal. I know they are working on other things in our DD's K class that are math related.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. This is why so many parents are dissatisfied.

Really, because there is a zillion long thread about how it is too hard and forcing first graders and kindergarteners to hate school and to drop out and become meth heads.
My god, people.
I cannot keep things straight. There are post bitching that common core is too hard and now a post about how it's too simple.

This all leads me to believe that if you are against it, you are against it and are going to find something to bitch about without really looking at it.

[Anonymous]

My kid just started K this year and can count to 100 already. Maybe that is the minimum requirement?

I used to volunteer in her preschool class and I'd say that most of those kids were able to count to 100 also.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP - that may be one of their goals for K math - but it likely isn't the only goal. I know they are working on other things in our DD's K class that are math related.

+1

Right now, DC's class just finished learning about patterns (A/B/A/B vs A/B/B/A/B/B) and are now working on representing a number in various ways (drawing 5 fingers, drawing 5 boxes).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid just started K this year and can count to 100 already. Maybe that is the minimum requirement?

I used to volunteer in her preschool class and I'd say that most of those kids were able to count to 100 also.

I use counting to 100 as a patience technique for my 3.5 yr old. If he wants something and I'm busy, I tell him to count to 100. It buys me about 3 min.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Really, do you all have a budding genius or go to 5 years of preschool or something? My dd went to part-time preschool for 3 years, and she can now reliably count to 20 or 30, but she is not able to count to 100 by 1's and 10's yet. She certainly didn't show up to K with that ability. Do you want your K student to be doing calculus or something? You know some kids that are very advance academically have other issues such as autism. [/quote
Are you serious? No, I don't want my K student to be doing calculus or something.How is counting to 100 to much by the end of K? He could count 'til 20 in Spanish in Pre-K as well as in English.He he not academically advanced or behind, nor does he have an autism or any other -ism.

[Anonymous]

Remember that common core encompasses more than just the children of two college/advanced degree families. There are tons of kids from less privileged backgrounds who absolutely have not had exposure enough to be able to do this.

[Anonymous]

They do addition and subtraction in K as well, sometimes even with double digits. For my Oct. baby it was to easy, but for my Sept. baby it will probably be too hard. You can't please everyone.

[Anonymous]

Counting by rote and then actually being able to singularly recognize 2 digit numbers is another thing.

I think the common core is looking to get kids the later skill.

My friend was always going on and on about her brilliant K child and how ridiculous it was that her special snowflake had to waste time learning to count. We got in an elevataor together and her DD asked which floor. I told her "21" and her kid couldn't recognize the number. She could say and count out 21 items but she actually understand the concept of the number 21 with out "20, 21, 22, 23" and she didn't realize that it's made up of 2 tens and 1 one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Remember that common core encompasses more than just the children of two college/advanced degree families. There are tons of kids from less privileged backgrounds who absolutely have not had exposure enough to be able to do this.

People absolutely cannot remember this. They think every kid out there has the same advantages as their little darlings and therefore the schools should cater exclusively to their advanced Einsteins.

You know, instead of accepting that the public schools are geared toward educational plurality and actually thrive best under that model.

[Anonymous]

You can look up the Common Core math standards for kindergarten by clicking on the link.

http://www.corestandards.org/Math/Content/K/introduction

Counting to 100 by 1s and 10s is CCSS.Math.Content.K.CC.A.1

There are a lot of other Common Core math standards for kindergarten in addition to this one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. This is why so many parents are dissatisfied.

Really, because there is a zillion long thread about how it is too hard and forcing first graders and kindergarteners to hate school and to drop out and become meth heads.
My god, people.
I cannot keep things straight. There are post bitching that common core is too hard and now a post about how it's too simple.

This all leads me to believe that if you are against it, you are against it and are going to find something to bitch about without really looking at it.

Yes, I also can't keep up. To go by what I read on DCUM, the Common Core standards are

1. too hard
2. too easy

I'm so confused.