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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So here is a worksheet from the Common Core workbook for first graders. I showed this to my husband, who can code in fractal mathematics, so he's no slouch. It took him about 10 minutes to figure out what the worksheet was asking and why.  I asked my 12 year old son to look at it. He could not figure out what was being asked of him.

https://twitter.com/NYCdeb8tr/status/450416183372955648/photo/1[/quote]
 Dummy have you not  been reading about the fact that New York has added stuff that is not common core?
Since when do we read stuff on Twitter and take that as gospel???
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The worksheet is from the COMMON CORE workbook. My nephew in MA has had similar problems. The sheets say COMMON CORE at the bottom.
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The following textbook companies have published math curriculum that they say will cover Common Core state standards.

Holt Mc Dougal:  
Carson Delosa:
Every Day Math
Houghton Mifflin
Saxon Math
Dimensions Math (Singapore math)
Pearson

... and the list goes on.   Since SO MANY states will be adopting Common Core State standards, every single textbook publishing company WILL BE saying it meets Common Core State Standards.

How they go about it, how well they go about, and how well they succeed -- remain to be seen.  But at least now they will all be trying to cover the same math standards at each grade, not have some textbooks for NY state standards, some for Tennessee state standards.

Now, I could publish a textbook and I could printe COMMON CORE at the bottom of each workbook page, and on each workbook page I could say:

Add 5 + 7.   Do i while standing on your head.    Add it using base 2.   Do it in Russian.....

Does the fact that I put COMMON CORE at the bottom of each page mean that COMMON CORE requires you to do the math problems while standing on your head?

No.
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