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As I said, reading. It's an ELA Curriculum.

Common Core is weak in math in a lot of ways. Instead of focusing on the basics, it has students regrouping and explaining and analyzing. Not doing, you know, actual math problems. It's incredibly confusing for students because it's so wordy and confusing.

It an effort to be "deep" -- it's just talky and confusing and turning kids around the country off math. It's also based on a failed experiment. THere's no proof kids who are learning Common Core will be any better at math than those who learned the old-fashioned way.

In my day, we easily got all the way to Calculus by 12th grade. [/quote]

In my day (I don't know when your day was), the only way you got to Calculus by 12th grade (and Calculus I only) was if you qualified for advanced math, meaning Algebra I in 8th grade. And most kids didn't qualify for advanced math. They took Algebra I in 9th grade and did not take Calculus I in high school.

Whereas the Common Core standards are supposed to prepare all kids for Algebra I by 8th grade.

I'm surprised to read, by the way, that regrouping isn't doing actual math.[/quote]

I went to school in Florida, and it was common for kids to be taking Calculus in 12th grade. This was in the 70s. I only got to Trigonometry, but I wasn't much of a math fan. [/quote]

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