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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have just about given up on this thread.  The CC standards are set up to develop a much deeper number sense.  I agree with this objective, as well as many of the sub standards.

A number of PPs, however, treat a critique of how CC is implemented in many places as an attack on CC.  But it is perfectly possible to applaud the CC standards while simultaneously ruing they way it is often implemented.

Plenty of examples have been given here and on other threads on how confusing many of the instructions are in some of the CC-implementing materials.  Poor instructions are an impediment to NT kids, but even more so for those with language problems. I have argued that these materials need easy to digest instructions.  This has been taken as a plea for dumbing down standards for the language impaired.  These, it is argued. should be getting special services.  But unless a child is severely language impaired or nonverbal, that is simply not happening on today's school budgets.

Alternatively, we could have really skilled math teachers starting in K and first grade, but that is not happening any time soon either.

All in all. really good materials that have been road tested with moderately language impaired children who are otherwise math capable would seem to be the most practical solution. This does not make me anti-CC or an advocate for separate, lower standards for kids with language problems.  All children do better when they don't have to slog through murky instructions to try to figure what is being asked.[/quote]

I agree with you comments.  My child can do it if given the chance and proper instruction.  Normally if he gets something wrong it is because the wording or worksheet is confusing and on a few occasions has gotten it wrong as I didn't understand the instructions.  Common core is a set of standards.  The issue is the materials and how they are being implemented.  They are very different issues.  I think its good to have a universal standard as then if kids change schools things are similar.  The issue is the teaching skill and the materials being used.  If a child is that severely impaired, they will be at a special school and this is a non-issue.  A non-verbal child is not going to most likely be in a regular classroom.

I would be really pissed if they dumbed down the standards for my child.  Its the teaching style and teachers lack of understanding about his language needs that are our issue.   He's very capable of working on grade level and sometimes beyond.  But, if a teacher explains it poorly, too wordy and does not also show while speaking, it often gets lost (as it would with many other kids).[/quote]

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