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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child was learning addition, subtraction, telling time & counting money last year as a second grade student in NYS.   This year my third grader's math homework started with division problems that also required comprehension to extract all of the facts to answer the questions, then they expect the child to explain the answer, in detail, on a concept they weren't taught!  This has been a tough year for my child. I have been told that she hates school & the most heartbreaking part is she feels stupid.  I have been working with her on my own to teach her multiplication tables, and this is after an hour of homework.  From my perspective, the curriculum bounces around too much and the teachers don't have enough time to focus on one topic before they have to move on to the next.  The kids who don't learn as fast are getting steamrolled.  The teachers are stressed out & are forced to worry about getting graded and potentially losing their job based on ratings.  Most teachers I have spoke with said that all of the fun has been sucked out of teaching.  They no longer have time to do the fun activities.  Kids need to learn but they also still need to be kids. As a parent, I spend a lot of time on the 'engageny' website educating myself so I can help my child with her homework.  It has been a frustrating year for the kids, the parents and the students.

I think they should have had a better implementation strategy, maybe a phased approach would have worked better.  Perhaps if they started with the kindergartners and let the kids that were in the other grades continue with the old method this would have had a better outcome.  So far, I am not impressed and I am upset that my child is essentially a common core guinea pig. [/quote]

Not sure what the complaint is here?  Second grade too easy and too big a jump to 3rd grade?  Our district teaches "telling time and counting money" in K and first, addition and subtraction with manipulatives in  k and as facts in first.  Division is introduced in second along with multiplication.  This has been the before the implementation of common ocre.[/quote]

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