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It's you who haven't done your homework and are spouting Common Core marketing babble. From the above link, a confession from the lead writer of the Common Core Math Standards that hey don't prepare you for college math.

https://deutsch29.wordpress.com/2014/04/23/those-24-common-core-2009-work-group-members/

[b]Jason Zimba, another “lead writer” of the CCSS math[/b], holds a bachelors and masters in mathematics and another masters plus a doctorate in physics. Zimba once taught physics and mathematics at Bennington College; however, he is no longer there, and the link to his vita is dead. According to Zimba’s bio on the Student Achievement Partners (SAP) website (the company-gone-nonprofit that directed CCSS), Zimba has taught “disadvantaged high school students, and children of non-English speaking immigrants”; however, no details are provided regarding Zimba’s having any specific K-12 classroom teaching experience.

[b]The Baton Rouge Advocate includes this very telling observation by Zimba regarding the suitability of CCSS math for “college readiness”:

Jason Zimba, a professor of physics and math at Bennington College in Vermont and lead writer of the math standards, says they include “an awful lot of algebra before eighth grade,” even though the first full course doesn’t come until high school.

But Zimba also acknowledges that ending with the Common Core in high school could preclude students from attending elite colleges.[/b] In many cases, the Core is not aligned with the expectations at the collegiate level. “If you want to take calculus your freshman year in college, you will need to take more mathematics than is in the Common Core,” Zimba said

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Well, wait now.   Why do you even care what this "lead writer" of the math standards has to say?   Apparently he has almost no experience in teaching K-12 math, so his ideas and comments are useless, or at least suspect, right?

But anyhow....Common Core state standards are not meant to prepare all students for so-called "elite" colleges.   Just college, including community college.   Students with a high school diploma should not need to take remedial math and developmental reading classes in community college.

Students with a strong proclivity in math would be expected to master the standards in high school at an accelerated pace, leaving room for advanced math (AP Calculus, etc.) which are not appropriate or intended  for all students.   [/quote]

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