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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Which Common Core standards do you think are a joke, and why do you think so?[/quote]
[Excellent summary of the federal politics behind CC]  
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That's interesting. You didn't answer the question. [...]
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I don't know what the earlier poster had in mind, but here is one (jokish CC standard):
"Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others."  (from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Core_State_Standards_Initiative#Mathematics_standards).
Sounds good, right?  No, because this was already done, but [i]correctly[/i], in Curriculum 1.0.  It was called a PROOF.  Mathematics is a [i]language[/i], and within that language conclusions are justified using proofs.  The reasoning of another is critiqued by identifying an error at some step of his/her proof.  Replacing that with "write a paragraph explaining why Frank's answer is correct" is a huge step backwards (not to mention a nightmare for the teacher who has to decide how much partial credit to give for not-quite-coherent answers).

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This is not a standard. This is one of the math practices underlying the individual math standards, along with "Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them" and "Reason abstractly and quantitatively". Do you disagree with these principles? It sounds like you agree with them.

Also, you really don't have to refer to Wikipedia to find out what the Common Core standards are. You can go directly to the source, here: http://www.corestandards.org/Math/[/quote]

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