Common Core's Dirtiest Trick: Dividing Parents and Children

By Bruce Deitrick Price When you look back at New Math (ca. 1965) and Reform Math (ca. 1990), one of the most striking and persistent features was that parents could not understand the homework their children brought home. Mystified parents were trying to advise mystified children. The parents, presumably the wise members of the society, were helpless to say anything useful when confronted by the weird complexities of “reform” math, which has now been rolled forward into Common Core. Here is a commonplace horror story that can stand in for millions of others: “When Mike and Camille Chudzinski tried to help their son with his homework earlier this fall, they were bewildered. The fourth-grader brought home no spelling lists, few textbooks, and a whole new approach to solving math problems. When he tackled multi-digit addition, for instance, Patrick did not just line up the two numbers and then add the columns, as his parents had been taught to do. Instead, he sketched…

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Did you learn math this way?

From Stop Common Core/North Carolina - "Parents of young children, this video is especially for you. I hope this will encourage you to pick up the phone and call or write an email to your state rep and voice your concerns. Please share this with other parents. How much whiteboard space would be needed to add $17 trillion? (sorry, I digress but could not help myself). As I learn more, I will be writing more about TERC." --NC Citizen

Read Bill Quirk's review: TERC Hands-On Math: A Snapshot View

After watching the video, click 'comments' and give us your thoughts. I'd call this child abuse. --bc

7/13 UPDATE: Ah, I see there are no comments even after I asked!  So do I stand alone against this stuff? Hello... Read More......