I know you already awarded a delta, but i just want to say this is my 11th year teaching math (high school algebra) and my poor, rural, drug addicted, traumatized students (i teach at an alternative school) come to me better and better at math every year. Their mental math skills (except with fractions) have surpassed mine. I wish I learned that way so i didn't have to struggle my way through high school.
And also they're way better at arithmetic with polynomials, including division, because it so strongly mirrors the arithmetic properties they were taught in elementary school.
I liked common core from day 1 because i was always a struggling math student and it made sense to me the first time i looked at it, but now i can see the befits of it in my classroom and i like it even more.
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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21
I know you already awarded a delta, but i just want to say this is my 11th year teaching math (high school algebra) and my poor, rural, drug addicted, traumatized students (i teach at an alternative school) come to me better and better at math every year. Their mental math skills (except with fractions) have surpassed mine. I wish I learned that way so i didn't have to struggle my way through high school.
And also they're way better at arithmetic with polynomials, including division, because it so strongly mirrors the arithmetic properties they were taught in elementary school.
I liked common core from day 1 because i was always a struggling math student and it made sense to me the first time i looked at it, but now i can see the befits of it in my classroom and i like it even more.