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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Why are they not useful for teachers? [/quote]

They waste the teacher's time.  They waste the student's time.  They are vague and confusing in some cases.[/quote]

It wastes the teacher's time and the student's time to gain a thorough understanding of math?[/quote]

The other PP who thinks it's a waste of time probably just wants their kid to be accelerated as quickly as possible, and under the curriculum using CC standards just won't achieve that.  Many educators, including math teachers, have complained about the "mile wide, inch deep" math curriculum.  I've stated this before, learning how to add using base 10 is probably the most efficient way of doing math.  My DCs are learning how to add using this method under this new curriculum.

I think a lot of people, especially in the DMV area, are highly educated and feel that their education was fine, got them to where they are, so it should be fine for our kids.  What these people are not considering is that times have changed, and so the curriculum should change with it.  Yes, math is math, but how they learn, how deeply they learn it, making sure they are more exposed to critical thinking than mindless worksheets, is way more important for our kids generation than it was for the parents' and previous generations because they are going to be entering a completely different type of job market than in previous years.

I read an article about what CEOs highly prize in people. It wasn't what they majored in or how great they were in that particular field.  It was more about the ability to think critically, pinpoint problems areas, forsee possible issues, and think outside the box.  Such skills are related to critical thinking and seeing problems from different angles.  I don't think previous curriculums did a lot of that in the early years (ES and MS), especially in math.   As another PP noted, math used to be taught like this:  "just do this for that problem, and that for the other problem", with no deep explanation as to "why" it was done this or that way.

As stated in other posts, in MCPS, on-track math is taking Algebra by 8th grade, and Calculus by 12th.  How does this path translate to "CC math wastes my kid's and teacher's time"?[/quote]

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