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[quote=Anonymous][quote]You can argue that this isn't being done because the teacher/school is more focused on getting the rest of the kids up to those standards (which is probably true), but that would be the case regardless of CC standards. Any school district that had baseline standards had this issue due to all the NCLB testing.[/quote]

True and a lot of people were unhappy with the NCLB testing for precisely the reason you stated.  Now, just when they thought there was a chance of rectifying that situation, along comes CC with different tests, but nonetheless testing.  And it is worse now because people were just getting used to the other standards and testing those (and figuring how to track kids out who didn't need them) and now they are told that things didn't improve because the standards were wrong (so enter CC).  I think a lot of people are skeptical for good reasons.

The best math is going to be a combination of rote and conceptual learning.  CC looks like it is trying to resolve the problem that there was not enough conceptual learning going on.  I'm not sure they made a case for solving that "problem", but there it is.  I believe that there are people who get the concepts quickly and who are very gifted in logical thinking, but for whom the language side of their brains is not as developed and therefore they have trouble articulating their logic (this is the "inappropriate" part).  Maybe this logical articulation needs to be developed from the start (K) or maybe it doesn't (this is something CC appears to have taken a stand on philosophically without a lot of evidence or research given).  There are plenty of brilliant math people who have this problem with articulating their logic---and they have probably advanced their working language to a higher degree than schoolchildren have.

I'm not sure what the thinking was behind this "explanation" thing.  Maybe the people at Microsoft have a hard time communicating their logic and somebody thinks this problem could be resolved starting in kindergarten?  [/quote]

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