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As the Common Core makes its way into real-life classrooms, I hope teachers are able to adjust its guidelines as they fit. I hope, for instance, that teachers will still be allowed to introduce the standard method for addition and subtraction in second grade rather than waiting until fourth. I also hope that teachers who favor direct instruction over an inquiry-based approach will be given this freedom."[/quote]

Wait, what? Where in the Common Core does it say that teachers are not allowed to introduce the standard algorithm for addition and subtraction until fourth grade? [/quote]

No.  When my DC was in 3rd grade last year, he learned the standard algorithm for "carrying the 1".  They first learn how to "decompose" and add, but eventually, they did learn it the standard way.

He's in 4th now, compacted math, and he carry's the 1, although, it did take me a few times to convince him that carrying the 1 was the fastest way to do this type of math.  I think people get stuck on one way to do math and have a hard time switching.  That goes for us old timers, too.  [/quote]

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