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More articles on how bad Common Core is for the SN community:

http://blog.dyslexicadvantage.org/2015/07/27/the-problem-with-common-core-math-and-dyslexia-showing-work/

The Problem with Common Core Math and Dyslexia – Showing Work

From Education News: “…the amount of work required for explanation turns a straightforward problem into a long managerial task that is concerned more with pedagogy than with content. While drawing diagrams or pictures may help some students learn how to solve problems, for others it is unnecessary and tedious.” – Barry Garelick, Education News

If the task is tedious for non-dyslexic students, it may be physically impossible for some and perhaps even a majority of age-matched dyslexic ones. The unfortunate fact today, too, is that the average classroom teacher has little or no training in dyslexia, so they won’t know how to accommodate their dyslexic students to new Common Core demands, let alone target their instruction specifically to how these students learn best.[/quote]

My child is dyslexic, and yes, writing out answers is hard for him. Other things in math are really hard for him, too, like rote memorization of times tables. He may never learn them. But I am still blown away by the way he is learning math, and how different (in a good way!) his experience is from mine. I am dyslexic, too, and when I was in school the way multiplication was taught was memorizing the times tables. I didn't understand for years - until graduate school, when I took and loved statistics - what numbers really meant. But my son loves math, and is good at it. Accomodations exist so that a kid like my son can have an alternate way to show his work. For example, he can draw something, or dictate his thinking using voice recognition software. [/quote]

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