How a flawed idea is teaching kids to be poor readers

Re:How a flawed idea is teaching kids to be poor readers by threatofrain on Sunday August 25, 2024 @03:10AM (#41345129)

> This is how I felt when I first tried to figure out what common core math was, after I kept hearing about it. It sounded like the people who made it were trying to create a process around what I would do in my head to try and solve a problem when I didn’t have paper or a calculator handy.

> What common core, and this reading approach, seem to miss is that those are things that come after learning the foundations and rules.

The CA Common Core for math¹ is a very tiny spec that can be easily read in a day for the entirety of K-12. It's a spec meant to coordinate textbook publishers, test makers, and other content creators.

It offers very little restriction or guidance, in other words wide latitude, on pedagogical vision.

[1]: https://www.cde.ca.gov/BE/ST/SS/documents/ccssmathstandardau...

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Re:How a flawed idea is teaching kids to be poor readers by mlyle on Monday August 26, 2024 @01:28AM (#41354253)

And what's there isn't too different from what's before, though pedagogical ideas that are now more in vogue (use of tape models) are mentioned prominently, and there's a lot more emphasis on students being able to explain what they've done and why it works.

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