Anonymous wrote:(Because as it has been well established, "Common Core" is a list of standards. So if "Common Core" is dreadful, then it must be a standard that is dreadful.

So look up the standards, and tell us which one or ones are particularly dreadful, for Midwestern children.

Anonymous wrote:(Because as it has been well established, "Common Core" is a list of standards. So if "Common Core" is dreadful, then it must be a standard that is dreadful.

So look up the standards, and tell us which one or ones are particularly dreadful, for Midwestern children.

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Anonymous wrote:I find it interesting that teachers excuse other teachers for sending home error ridden worksheets.

My daughter's teacher creates her own material on a daily basis as a way of enlivening the curriculum and in addition to the suggested materials purchased by the country. SOme come from online sources, but she makes a lot herself. (That's the "freedom to be creative" piece people are so worried will be lost with national standards.) If there are a few typos I am not going to get my panties in a wad.

If a published curriculum were riddled with errors, I would expect that material not to be used, and I would find fault with a school district that allowed it to be purchased and used. I would not find fault with a teacher for sending home work from a required text.

The few examples we have seen here from New York State (math curriculum questions that are confusing) I would find unacceptable if they were assigned on a daily basis by an individual teacher. If they are part of an official curriculum adopted by a school district, I would be contacting that school district and holding it accountable for adopting this textbook as there are better ones out there.

If I created a manual for software and that software's manual was being tested and contained errors to the point where it confused the testers, I would be held responsible - and rightfully so. If a teacher sends home a worksheet with errors that frustrates a child and upsets the peace of the household, you darn well should 'get your panties in a wad'.

Unreal - no personal responsibility demonstrated at all.

Who is not demonstrating personal responsibility here? I am confused.

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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.

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?

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.

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.

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!

Well, I can see the snobbish asshole factor is alive and well on the DCUM.

Signed, a Midwest Obama vote and CC despiser who never listens to Glenn Beck

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Anonymous wrote:

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

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?

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.

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.

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!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

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?

Is this a veiled 'Midwesterners are stupid?' Comment. Let me guess: you are a liberal democrat from DC or MD

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find it interesting that teachers excuse other teachers for sending home error ridden worksheets.

My daughter's teacher creates her own material on a daily basis as a way of enlivening the curriculum and in addition to the suggested materials purchased by the country. SOme come from online sources, but she makes a lot herself. (That's the "freedom to be creative" piece people are so worried will be lost with national standards.) If there are a few typos I am not going to get my panties in a wad.

If a published curriculum were riddled with errors, I would expect that material not to be used, and I would find fault with a school district that allowed it to be purchased and used. I would not find fault with a teacher for sending home work from a required text.

The few examples we have seen here from New York State (math curriculum questions that are confusing) I would find unacceptable if they were assigned on a daily basis by an individual teacher. If they are part of an official curriculum adopted by a school district, I would be contacting that school district and holding it accountable for adopting this textbook as there are better ones out there.

If I created a manual for software and that software's manual was being tested and contained errors to the point where it confused the testers, I would be held responsible - and rightfully so. If a teacher sends home a worksheet with errors that frustrates a child and upsets the peace of the household, you darn well should 'get your panties in a wad'.

Unreal - no personal responsibility demonstrated at all.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find it interesting that teachers excuse other teachers for sending home error ridden worksheets.

My daughter's teacher creates her own material on a daily basis as a way of enlivening the curriculum and in addition to the suggested materials purchased by the country. SOme come from online sources, but she makes a lot herself. (That's the "freedom to be creative" piece people are so worried will be lost with national standards.) If there are a few typos I am not going to get my panties in a wad.

If a published curriculum were riddled with errors, I would expect that material not to be used, and I would find fault with a school district that allowed it to be purchased and used. I would not find fault with a teacher for sending home work from a required text.

The few examples we have seen here from New York State (math curriculum questions that are confusing) I would find unacceptable if they were assigned on a daily basis by an individual teacher. If they are part of an official curriculum adopted by a school district, I would be contacting that school district and holding it accountable for adopting this textbook as there are better ones out there.

If I created a manual for software and that software's manual was being tested and contained errors to the point where it confused the testers, I would be held responsible - and rightfully so. If a teacher sends home a worksheet with errors that frustrates a child and upsets the peace of the household, you darn well should 'get your panties in a wad'.

Unreal - no personal responsibility demonstrated at all.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

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?

Is this a veiled 'Midwesterners are stupid?' Comment. Let me guess: you are a liberal democrat from DC or MD

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

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?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find it interesting that teachers excuse other teachers for sending home error ridden worksheets.

My daughter's teacher creates her own material on a daily basis as a way of enlivening the curriculum and in addition to the suggested materials purchased by the country. SOme come from online sources, but she makes a lot herself. (That's the "freedom to be creative" piece people are so worried will be lost with national standards.) If there are a few typos I am not going to get my panties in a wad.

If a published curriculum were riddled with errors, I would expect that material not to be used, and I would find fault with a school district that allowed it to be purchased and used. I would not find fault with a teacher for sending home work from a required text.

The few examples we have seen here from New York State (math curriculum questions that are confusing) I would find unacceptable if they were assigned on a daily basis by an individual teacher. If they are part of an official curriculum adopted by a school district, I would be contacting that school district and holding it accountable for adopting this textbook as there are better ones out there.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

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?

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.

Anonymous wrote:

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