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The standard for money is a second-grade math standard:

CCSS.Math.Content.2.MD.C.8
Solve word problems involving dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies, using $ and ¢ symbols appropriately. Example: If you have 2 dimes and 3 pennies, how many cents do you have?

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Requiring word problems in 2nd grade when many children are still learning to read is a problem.

So that standard is a "FAIL" right here. [/quote]

Here is a word problem about making change from Singapore Math 2B:

"Hassan bought this pencil sharpener. [Picture of pencil sharpener with a sign that says 45 cents] He gave the cashier $1. How much change did he receive?"

How come children in Singapore were able to do this? Do children develop differently in Singapore?[/quote]

Some of them can. I'm sure not all of them can. That's the problem with the Common Core. It demands everyone be in lock step, which will never work. [/quote]

Ah. You are one of the opponents who are opposed to all standards, on principle. Some second-graders will not be able to do [something]; therefore, there should be no standards saying that second-graders should be able to do [something].

Are you also opposed to Virginia's Standards of Learning? Will you also be opposed to the standards that Oklahoma is supposed to come up with, to replace the Common Core standards they rejected?[/quote]

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