One Parent's Experience (and Thoughts) on Common Core
Update: wanted to add a link to a Pennsylvania teacher's PD day on Common Core. Eye-opening reading and you will now know the CC theme " Kids these days" and that an official sponsor of the standards is Office Depot. Long but detailed and from a teacher's POV (which I think is important to the discussion.) End of update. From reader Kristen King's blog, My Daughter, the Guinea Pig : We’re a very mathy family. We all learned math the way human beings learn things — that is, by making it a fun part of our everyday activities. But this year, my daughter is a guinea pig for the new national experiment that is called the Common Core standards. Her class is using a new curriculum designed specifically for the Common Core, “My Math,” and she hates it. I’m hearing her say, “I don’t like math,” and I’m concerned. She still likes math, really, but only when we mess around with it as a family. Her homework is procrastination and resentment and sometimes te...