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The first problem:

Those K standards should be grade 1 standards. [/quote]

Huh!   Well, besides you, who else says that, specifically, adding and subtracting to 10 with objects is too hard for grade K (neurotypical) students?[/quote]

Most professionals familiar with how children learn would tell you this.

And in my state, children often enter K when they 4 years old. [/quote]

C'mon, cite some references.   Now don't find some article where some educator is quoting a "Common Core math worksheet" and saying how this math is horrible for K students.   Cite some recent experts (people working in the field) who are saying that it is developmentally inappropriate for 5 and 6 year old kindergarten children to be able, by the end of their Kindergarten year of school, to add 2 oranges and 4 oranges and count 1-2-3-4-5-6 oranges.[/quote]

http://www.edweek.org/media/joint_statement_on_core_standards.pdf

Joint Statement of Early Childhood
Health and Education Professionals
on the Common Core Standards Initiative
Issued by the Alliance for Childhood
March 2, 2010
www.allianceforchildhood.org
WE HAVE GRAVE CONCERNS about the core standards for young children now
being written by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State
School Officers. The draft standards made public in January conflict with compelling
new research in cognitive science, neuroscience, child development, and early childhood
education about how young children learn, what they need to learn,
and how best to teach them in kindergarten and the early grades.

...[/quote]

I HAVE seen that letter.   NOTHING in it comes even close to saying that Kindergarten students should not be able to, say,  add 2 plus three oranges and come up with 5 oranges.

It is NOT addressing specific skills.  They say that early childhood education should not contain "didactic instruction".  However, all the skills required to be learned in Kindergarten (in math anyhow) should be learned through hands on activities.   They can be taught, and taught well, through games, and through the use of active manipulation of objects.

They are assuming that when a standards says "be able to say which number is greater" that the teachers are forcing this information onto a child with the use of flashcards and pencil and paper tests, but that does not have to be the case.   Children can play AND learn math.

There are some great card games you can play with to help kids learn to break down numbers and to see which goes with which to make ten.   I posted a description of such a game on the first page on this thread -- I use it all the time with my K students.

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/364328.page
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