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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP of above post again.

While I think it is reasonable to argue whether an individual standard such as "Count orally by rote to 100" is appropriate for the end of K or the end of grade 1, I don't think it is reasonable to argue that the standard it "vague", "wordy" or confusing.

Any teacher who cannot understand the kindergarten or grade 1 math standards shouldn't be in teaching.   Any adult who can't understand the math standards (without a little bit of effort, perhaps, to learn the vocabulary used to describe certain strategies that they might not be familiar with) has some kind of problem.   The math standards aren't vague at all.[/quote]

The teachers I've talked to disagree. [/quote]

I am not a teacher-basher, and I think that anybody who teaches kindergarten, no matter how badly, is doing something I can't do.

Nonetheless, I agree with the PP that if a kindergarten or first-grader teacher has trouble understanding the math standards after receiving basic training from the school district in math vocabulary and strategies, then that indicates a problem with the teacher, not with the math standards. And it suggests why the Common Core math standards are necessary, namely that in general, math education in the US is not very good:  http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/magazine/why-do-americans-stink-at-math.html?_r=0[/quote]

Common Core is only going to make  that worse. It's not going to improve kids' math understanding. [b]All we see all over the country now are confused students who hate school.[/b]

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That is certainly what you see, if that's what you're looking to see. I don't think it's the complete picture, though.[/quote]

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