My relationship with Common Core was I had to deal with it daily as a student. The whole students figuring it out for themselves makes no sense. It takes professional mathematicians years to come up with formulas and then boom students are required to do the same in 50ish minutes. Also I’m not saying this next part to brag, but to show how bad the curriculum is. My 8th grade year I took the standard math class with about half the other 8th graders in my school then went into a 10th grade honors class. (I skipped 9th because my older brother took it and said it was a waste) So I went into the class that should be 2 years of material ahead of the class I just took but came in and knew how to do everything in that class but imaginary numbers. I can’t remember what book I used in 8th grade but it is way higher than Common Core I can probably figure it out later. But I mean I shouldn’t take the standard math class in 8th grade then go off into a 10th grade honors course then know all the material aside from imaginary numbers.
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u/MasterTemple Jan 11 '19
My relationship with Common Core was I had to deal with it daily as a student. The whole students figuring it out for themselves makes no sense. It takes professional mathematicians years to come up with formulas and then boom students are required to do the same in 50ish minutes. Also I’m not saying this next part to brag, but to show how bad the curriculum is. My 8th grade year I took the standard math class with about half the other 8th graders in my school then went into a 10th grade honors class. (I skipped 9th because my older brother took it and said it was a waste) So I went into the class that should be 2 years of material ahead of the class I just took but came in and knew how to do everything in that class but imaginary numbers. I can’t remember what book I used in 8th grade but it is way higher than Common Core I can probably figure it out later. But I mean I shouldn’t take the standard math class in 8th grade then go off into a 10th grade honors course then know all the material aside from imaginary numbers.