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[b]Common Core teaches the abstract before it teaches the concrete[/b]. This will be a failure for many early learners. It's why so many are already unconnecting from the learning process. They think they are "dumb" and they are only in Kindergarten. [/quote]

No, it doesn't.   The state standards for grades K and 1 are quite concrete.

For example, the standards for Kindergarten Math: operations and lagebraic thinking, below, all are carried out using objects, fingers, or drawings.  The standards state that in grade K students should be exposed to equations, but should not be expected to write equations yet (if they want to that;s great but it is not necessary, hence "drawings OR equations" not "Drawings AND equations."

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.OA.A.1
Represent addition and subtraction with [b]objects, fingers, mental images, drawings1, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations[/b].

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.OA.A.2
Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using [b]objects or drawings[/b] to represent the problem.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.OA.A.3
Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way, e.g., by using [b]objects or drawings[/b], and record each decomposition by [b]a drawing[/b] or equation (e.g., 5 = 2 + 3 and 5 = 4 + 1).

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.OA.A.4
For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number, e.g., [b]by using objects or drawings[/b], and record the answer with [b]a drawing[/b] or equation.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.OA.A.5
Fluently add and subtract within 5.[/quote]

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