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It's hardly just NY, although it is particularly bad there. I'm in the Midwest, and Common Core is dreadful there as well.[/quote]

Which Common Core State standard seems to be giving kids in "the Midwest" trouble?

Link to the standards here:

http://www.corestandards.org/read-the-standards/

Are your Midwestern kids having trouble with math standards or language arts standards?[/quote]

I read online that Midwestern kids are having a hard time learning their times tables.  That standard is here, and a lot of kids in the midwest come from the kind of homes where this kind of memorization is hard for them.   They are upset and anxious because they have to learn all their times table facts, fluently by the end of third grade, and it is really giving the kids and parents headaches.

[quote]CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.OA.C.7
Fluently multiply and divide within 100, using strategies such as the relationship between multiplication and division (e.g., knowing that 8 × 5 = 40, one knows 40 ÷ 5 = 8) or properties of operations. By the end of Grade 3, know from memory all products of two one-digit numbers.[/quote]

Prior to Common Core, Midwestern kids were expected to use calculators to multiply.    That was a lot easier.

I hear Glenn Beck is all over this situation.   Free the Midwest from unreasonable Common Core multiplication fact mastery![/quote]

Is this a joke? Since when are third graders allowed to use calculators for simple multiplication?[/quote]

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