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The question is whether it is valid to say that the Common Core standards are not developmentally appropriate, given that Singapore Math expected students at the same age to be able to do the same things, and nobody has yet (to my knowledge) said that they were not able to? [/quote]

They are NOT developmentally appropriate.  And, please remember, the average child does not have a parent posting on DCUM.
signed, K teacher
 
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HOW are the Common Core standards not developmentally appropriate?

And as far as I can tell, nobody -- not nobody posting on DCUM, just plain all around nobody -- said that Singapore math was developmentally inappropriate. If you know that somebody somewhere has said that Singapore math is developmentally appropriate, could you please provide a reference to that?[/quote]

There are some valid arguments people are making against the math standards for, say, kindergarten.

For example, the standard that by the end of Kindergarten, students should be able to count, by rote, to 100.   Some people say that by the end of kindergarten, a lower number is more reasonable -- I have seen the suggestion os "45" instead of 100.   This would mean that the student was able to go above 20 (which would be a very low standard) for a few more decades, but not all the way to 100.

I think criticisms like this are reasonable ones.   It may well be that counting all the way to 100 is just not developmentally appropriate for kids in the US, speaking English.   I have read that children learning math in Chinese languages like Mandarin have an advantage, because their counting system makes it very easy to count to 100.

In their language, the coiunting system goes  :

one, two three four five six seven eight nine one ten

one ten 1 (11)
one ten 2 (12
one ten 3 (13)
one ten 4 (14)
one ten 5
one ten six
 one ten 7
one ten 8
one ten 9
two ten
two ten 1  (21)

etc

three ten (30)
four ten (40)

etc

So counting to 100 is a very easy skill for kindergarteners, where as in English it is much harder.[/quote]

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