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[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.

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Super simple for a six year old who had been instructed in the make ten method. If you have never been introduced to this of course it looks weird. But my 1st grader would breeze through that problem and in fact did breeze through many of this type early in the year. Gregtangmath.com. Is a great site for practicing this type of thing.

Education goes through fads in teaching methods. Just because this is the current fad and not the one I was taught under doesn't make it a poor method. My 6 year old has a pretty great grasp of this math. And he has memorized math facts too, but can use these types of strategies to add and subtract mentally with two and three digit numbers. I use this type of shortcut mentally all the time also , I just wasn't formally taught to do so. Formalizing this as an instructional method is no less valid than my teachers showing us to use our fingers to help do the nines times tables. ( hold up hands , fold the finger you are multiplying by, and  " read" the number tens before the folded finger and ones after ). [/quote]

What you are missing, is that what's right for YOUR child, might not be right for other children. A teacher and district (local level) can do that faster and more efficiently than state and fed.[/quote]

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