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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Common Core is a set of standards, not a curriculum. Your problem is with the school's curriculum and worksheets they're using.[/quote]

Well, yes.  It seems a special curriculum was developed for Common Core and all schools in our area have adopted it.   So many people are unhappy about it. At times it's very confusing.  It's in this style:

[img]http://i.imgur.com/1PLVvj4.jpg[/img][/quote]

NP. I am totally confused by what it means to "circle names for each number" and then having all numbers that follow. I don't have a kid who is doing common core math yet, though. What does this mean?[/quote]

Also, what does it mean to "write four names for five"?[/quote]

I am a NP too and I infer that "names" for a number may mean a "math sentence" that equals that number.  So, "names" for 7 could be:  3+4, 2+5, 1+6, etc.

And "four names for five" could be:  1+4, 2+3, 3+2, 4+1.[/quote]

PS  For example, the correct "names" for 7, in the example given above, would be:  1+6, 14-7, 16-9.  [/quote]

Argh! So annoying that makers of these workbooks cannot use clear English.

It says look at the picture.  Fine, I've looked.  Then it asks the child to write two addition facts.  Child wrote down two.  What the child no doubt did not do (we don't see the whole page) is write down two number facts illustrated by the pictures.  Would it have been so hard to spell that out?  So far I think the child is following the instructions--as they were written.

Then we get to circling names for numbers.  The child does not see the word "seven" so he doesn't circle any.  Who could blame him?  Would it have been so hard to write: "For each number, circle the number sentences that are names for it"?

Then of course we get to writing four names for 5.  I don't blame the child for going to Sergio and fries at this point.  Again, could they not have said write four number sentence names for 5?

At my work, we would seriously ding staff who wrote with this lack of clarity.

The children deserve better.[/quote]

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