Reply to s/o Are these standards to hard for Kindergarten students?

Forum Index » Schools and Education General Discussion

Reply to "s/o Are these standards to hard for Kindergarten students?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
Math Professor James Milgrim (only math educator on the CCSS math committee, he refused to approve the standards), on the flaws of Common Core math standards (testifiying here on the difference between Indiana Standards and Common Core Standards):

" Both standards were authored with the help of the professional mathematics community as distinguished from the mathematical education community. But — as someone who was at the middle of overseeing the writing process – my main duty on the CCSSO Validation Committee — it became clear t[b]hat the professional math community input to CCSSI was often ignored[/b], which seemed not to be the case with the Indiana Standards. [b]A particularly egregious example of this occurred in the sixth and seventh grade standards and commentary on ratios, rates, proportion and percents, [b]where there are a number of serious errors and questionable examples.[/b][/b] But the same issues are also present in the development of the basic algorithms for whole number arithmetic – the most important topic in grades 1 -5.[/quote]

Prolific blog reposter -- that is the first concrete comment you have found and reposted (in bold)   There is an actual standard being criticized.  And there is even a hint of what is of concern.

Could you please do some more digging and post what the actual concern is, about the 6th and 7th grade standards in rates rations proportions and percents?

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics