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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's all those stupid worksheets. They need BOOKS that they can refer to, flip back to previous concepts and say, "Oh, NOW i get it!" Instead it's these absurd exercises with nothing of substance written on them to help them learn. It's just crazy.[/quote]

They didn't used to have BOOKS, either. Except for maybe a math textbook, which wasn't bad but also wasn't good, and weighed a ton, and I don't think that there were many third-graders referring to them.[/quote]

There are so many on-line resources that I can not agree on the need for a book.  My kids have books (HS) and never use them.  They like the variety of choices on line so they can find something that makes sense to them...and pre-2.0 there were no books either.[/quote]

I believe that if they stick with this awful common core that most parents don't even understand, they would benefit from having math workbooks that progress thru the grade like it was planned to do so.  I rather my kids have workbooks than the promethium boards.  [/quote]
I think it's a problem that most parents don't understand CC, not CC itself.  I have no problem understanding CC.  Some of the worksheets in the 2.0 curriculum are bad, however, but the math under 2.0 isn't hard to understand if you have any number sense. Whether 2.0 math is a good way to learn math is a different argument, but it's not hard to understand if you have any number sense.  I guess the problem is that some parents don't have a good number sense.  I think it's good 2.0 math is trying to fix that issue, whether this is exactly achieved or not remains to be seen.  Anecdotally, both my kids under 2.0 math seem to have a good number sense so seems to be working ok for now.[/quote]

I have a good number sense. The entire approach to math in CC, as far as I can tell, is learning how to do the math in their heads by chunks rather than doing it the exact way, with pencil and paper or a calculator. [b]This to me is what you do AFTER you already know the exact science of math. Seems especially odd, since this is probably the first generation who will never ever be without a calculator. (They are in every phone.) [/b]They don't do any "real" math as far as I can see from the worksheets.[/quote]

This is a great point that I haven't thought of before.  The new math is to help kids spatially understand numbers but many kid, especially boys, do not learn spatially.    [/quote]

I don't know where you got either of these ideas from -- either that the purpose of learning to do a math problem several different ways is to help kids spatially understand numbers, or that boys are less good at spatial thinking than girls.[/quote]

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