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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]However, I can't really connect that to your husband in any way. It seems that he either did have early experiences exploring with math, whether on his own or with an adult who enjoyed playing math games with him, or a talented teacher, and he doesn't remember them because he was young when they happened, or he didn't have those experiences and figured out creative strategies on his own. Either way that's great, but I'm not sure I understand how it relates to the idea that children today shouldn't have opportunities to explore a variety of strategies. [/quote]

If the teacher has to teach the kids multiple strategies and expect mastery on multiple strategies--when is there time?  I taught school, time is a commodity that is needed to teach lots of different things.  This is unrealistic.[/quote]

The Common Core math standards for the early grades (and perhaps for the later grades, I have spent much more time digging into the K - 5 standards, so I'll speak to those), are based on the assumption that long term outcomes are better if students spend more time going into depth on a smaller number of topics.

In Kindergarten, for example, students are now expected to perform a greater variety of tasks and use a greater variety of strategies for counting, adding and subtracting within 5, and demonstrating place value for numbers through 20.  On the other hand, they are no longer expected to understand the concept of a half, recognize coins, tell time to the hour, or work with rulers or other measurement tools.

In theory, at least, when these students get to the upper grades, their understanding of the underlying concepts of addition, subtraction, and place value will be solid, and students will be able to move quickly to applying them grade level topics.

So, students don't have more to learn, they're just learning different things, or the same thing in a different sequence.  [/quote]

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