Well, according to some teachers, they are trying to build engineering minds. Make them understand the concepts of math from the ground up rather than just learning to do it.
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LawyerLady
I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.
Believe me it just gets harder and harder as they go through school.
My Aunt use to call me to help her daughter, my younger cousin, with her math homework.
I have had to get my kids to ask older cousins how to do their math home work too.
It's crazy.
And 2+2 still equals 4. Except when it doesn't.
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I think you should go, LL. When I try to help DD with her math homework, I can do the problems, but not the WAY she has to have them done. The practice sheets they send home to demonstrate the methodology are pretty useless, too. It is very frustrating for both of us. When I just can't figure out what the teacher is looking for, I have DD call my cousin who is a middle school math teacher for help.
Well, according to some teachers, they are trying to build engineering minds. Make them understand the concepts of math from the ground up rather than just learning to do it.
This is the only thing I've heard about Common Core that makes sense.
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