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At public dollar expenses!!!!! Voucher systems could land you in a private school that isn’t required to use common core math. lol.
Actually, I was talking about common core math with a bunch of parents recently. A lot of the parents that had older siblings were complaining about how the younger sibling, now a product of common core math, were well behind their siblings when they were at the same grade level. Some at the 5th grade level, still can’t do basic arithmetic, even some of the teachers mentioned it.
We never quite bought into to CCM and just did it the old school math and old school problem solving, and played lip service to the N-different ways of solving one problem, drawing a nice pretty diagram, etc. Looks like it ended getting better results. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. But those are some pretty good 4-5 different “strategies” that kids come up with to solve the problem. Too bad, in most cases, none of those strategies helped kids reach the correct answer.[/quote]Public $ is already being spent on my kids’ education. If anything, I’ll be saving some tax $, since the private school I want to send my kids to charge less than what we’re paying to educate my kids in the public school.
As for common core. I actually don’t mind. I think it’s good for them to understand multiple ways to come to the same solution. I’m making my kids to the math drill that you and I did. I view that this will expand their breath in ways of learning math. That’s what my kids teacher convey as well, where we should do the math drills at home so they know the basic and what they get taught at school is more breath.[/quote]
I agree on your first part. And the voucher system would be a very interesting and compelling thing…I wonder how much tuition to Bishop school would be 🙂
I’m not totally against common core. I just don’t think the way it’s taught is useful for most kids, as it adds confusion than anything else.
But that’s just me.[/quote]I totally agree with your feeling about CCM. My kid going from Singapore math at his private school to CCM math, he was confused for awhile and have to adjust. He has to regress from doing multiplication back to addition. However, while doing that, I do see that he didn’t really know addition as well as I thought he should. Which is a surprised to me but am glad that I see that. But he finally got a hang of it now and is exceling at it. While helping him, I do see the advantage of CCM.
