Common Core

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[–]Zapped 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

It's easy if your brain is wired that way. It's no better or worse than trying to get kids whose brains are wired this way to learn by memorization. People are not clones of each other and should be taught to learn in a way that's best for them as the individual. It's hard to do when you have 30 or so children to teach at the same time. Too many parents pass their children off to the schools for everything. Most of the better students have parents who help them with homework (see: spend time with your kids).

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When my grandfather was taught this in 1943 they called it "new math." It's a handy trick and I was taught it myself just in the "old" newer way. It's equivalence or balancing or whatever the right term is, just explained differently.

Imo the best thing we can do for students is leave some of them behind. Class only goes as fast as its slowest kid and graduating everyone... makes the education not really worth anything.