Common Core

[me]

By the way, maybe not at her kid's school but my kid's learn Math the traditional way and 2-3 ways of doing the same problem with Common Core so for her to say the traditional way is not being taught may not be true. My daughter knows her multiplication tables and how to multiply 3 different ways to get an answer from a problem!

Well hooray for your daughter. She is talking about her daughter's school and any other school which may be doing it the same way.  She also mentioned some of, if not all, the states which had quit teaching common core either all together or partly.

[Purplelady1040]

Well hooray for your daughter. She is talking about her daughter's school and any other school which may be doing it the same way.  She also mentioned some of, if not all, the states which had quit teaching common core either all together or partly.

No, she didn't mention any states! Did you watch the video? Like I said, Arkansas is 45th. in education out of 50 states. She needs to get with the times and learn that Common Core isn't going anywhere! She can bitch and complain all she wants but it is here and she can be like others, if not happy than homeschool her kid and see if they can keep up when the time comes! Like I posted almost all schools do it traditional way and Common Core way. Arkansas is no different! One of my college friends is a teacher in Arkansas and she said they have been doing Common Core and the traditional meyhod at the school she teaches at! Her daughter would rather do it the Common Core way and can get the answer faster!

[Purplelady1040]

It works better than your way - counting on your fingers. 

Hahahaha!!! I have learned the Common Core way to be able to work with my kids! I have to say had this been around when I was in school, I would have been a better Math student. Like I have posted before, my father was a Math teacher for 30 years and he is 87 years old, he is all about kids learning how to do Math different ways! He wishes I had learned Math this way as he always said I had a glitch when it comes to Math!

[me]

Hahahaha!!! I have learned the Common Core way to be able to work with my kids! I have to say had this been around when I was in school, I would have been a better Math student. Like I have posted before, my father was a Math teacher for 30 years and he is 87 years old, he is all about kids learning how to do Math different ways! He wishes I had learned Math this way as he always said I had a glitch when it comes to Math!

Well bully for you I'm so glad you always have time to do things the hard way. I'm surprised you aren't in the Guinness Book Of Records for most knowledgable person around with all your many achievements and your great knowledge of every subject that is discussed on this forum. Not too many people can make claim to knowing as much as you seem to about everything. I'll bet your secret is staying in Holiday Inns almost every night.

[Purplelady1040]

Well bully for you I'm so glad you always have time to do things the hard way. I'm surprised you aren't in the Guinness Book Of Records for most knowledgable person around with all your many achievements and your great knowledge of every subject that is discussed on this forum. Not too many people can make claim to knowing as much as you seem to about everything. I'll bet your secret is staying in Holiday Inns almost every night.

Nope, I don't know a lot about a lot things but when you're a parent you choose to keep up! I don't stay in Holiday Inn unless on vacation but then it sounds like you know all about that. Tell me, do you enjoy being a bitch because some of us choose to try and help our kids out and know how to help them when they have homework or do you just like being stupid? I choose with you being uninformed and stupid!  Maybe the reason I have time to do things is because I am retired and can do those things! What is your excuse?
I don't have knowledge of every subject on here but if I do then I choose to comment! There are tons of times I will read and never comment because I don't know about the subject or knowledgeable on a subject! I do read up on subjects but that doesn't make me knowledgeable in that area! Now continue being unintelligent about Common Core!
Most parents will do anything to help their kids achieve in subjects and that means learn how things are being done in schools! If I want my kids to excel in subjects then I am going to do that! Try and keep up with what and how kids are learning these days and also keep up with technology and apps that kids are using! If you don't keep up with what is going on with kids, or grandkids than you are going to be sorely left behind in more ways than onel

[Bo D]

She is talking about her daughter's school and any other school which may be doing it the same way. 

She home-schools her daughter. 

"I think that the Common Core is a solid set of well written high expectations for students in the classroom. Is it perfect? No, probably not. No set of standards will be," [Debbie] Bruick-Jones [Assistant Commissioner for the Arkansas Department of Education] said."They may have fewer problems, but within those problems they are multi-step, students have to show how they are working and thinking about that problem. They have to explain their process. It's really attempting to get at more critical thinking."

Dr. Laura Bednar, Pulaski County School District Deputy Superintendent, agrees.

"A student may be asked to cite the author's purpose of a specific text, and in the past he or she would do just that - cite the author's purpose. Perhaps now it might go a little deeper and say support your answer with supporting details," Bednar said.


Karen Lamoreaux use to be a Pulaski County Special School District parent. Lamoreaux told Channel 7 it is because of Common Core that she began to homeschool her child


http://www.katv.com/story/28123130/common-core-separating-facts-from-myths

[Purplelady1040]

She home-schools her daughter. 

"I think that the Common Core is a solid set of well written high expectations for students in the classroom. Is it perfect? No, probably not. No set of standards will be,” [Debbie] Bruick-Jones [Assistant Commissioner for the Arkansas Department of Education] said.”They may have fewer problems, but within those problems they are multi-step, students have to show how they are working and thinking about that problem. They have to explain their process. It's really attempting to get at more critical thinking.”

Dr. Laura Bednar, Pulaski County School District Deputy Superintendent, agrees.

“A student may be asked to cite the author's purpose of a specific text, and in the past he or she would do just that - cite the author's purpose. Perhaps now it might go a little deeper and say support your answer with supporting details,” Bednar said.


Karen Lamoreaux use to be a Pulaski County Special School District parent. Lamoreaux told Channel 7 it is because of Common Core that she began to homeschool her child


http://www.katv.com/story/28123130/common-core-separating-facts-from-myths

Seeing as how she homeschools  her kid, she has no right to talk about how things are being done in the public or private education field! It will be interesting to see if her child can pass an ACT or SAT!

[Exterminator]

It's really attempting to get at more critical thinking.

If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times.  School is less about teaching facts and figures than it is about teaching a way of thinking that allows students to work through problems.

[Purplelady1040]

If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times.  School is less about teaching facts and figures than it is about teaching a way of thinking that allows students to work through problems.

Agreed!!!

[Henry Hawk]

If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times.  School is less about teaching facts and figures than it is about teaching a way of thinking that allows students to work through problems.

At least it should be......That is what I told my kids, that Math is more about your ability to figure something out than anything else.

[me]

She home-schools her daughter. 

"I think that the Common Core is a solid set of well written high expectations for students in the classroom. Is it perfect? No, probably not. No set of standards will be," [Debbie] Bruick-Jones [Assistant Commissioner for the Arkansas Department of Education] said."They may have fewer problems, but within those problems they are multi-step, students have to show how they are working and thinking about that problem. They have to explain their process. It's really attempting to get at more critical thinking."

Dr. Laura Bednar, Pulaski County School District Deputy Superintendent, agrees.

"A student may be asked to cite the author's purpose of a specific text, and in the past he or she would do just that - cite the author's purpose. Perhaps now it might go a little deeper and say support your answer with supporting details," Bednar said.


Karen Lamoreaux use to be a Pulaski County Special School District parent. Lamoreaux told Channel 7 it is because of Common Core that she began to homeschool her child


http://www.katv.com/story/28123130/common-core-separating-facts-from-myths

That was her daughter's homework from school she was using as an example. If the daughter had arrived at the same conclusion only using two steps it would have been marked wrong by her teacher. Why? A person still has to figure out the answer. To me it is more about telling a child "what" to think rather than "howto think for themselves". That deal about if you do it your way your wrong because it has to be done our way is one example. She could just as easily have showed how she arrived at her conclusion using a shorter method. I was taught an alternative method which required an extra step or two but it was a shortcut and made sense unlike this gibberish.

[Purplelady1040]

That was her daughter's homework from school she was using as an example. If the daughter had arrived at the same conclusion only using two steps it would have been marked wrong by her teacher. Why? A person still has to figure out the answer. To me it is more about telling a child "what" to think rather than "howto think for themselves". That deal about if you do it your way your wrong because it has to be done our way is one example. She could just as easily have showed how she arrived at her conclusion using a shorter method. I was taught an alternative method which required an extra step or two but it was a shortcut and made sense unlike this gibberish.

That was the new way back when you were taught! All they are wanting kids to do is show how they get the answers and not shortcut it! It is like showing formulas in Algebra and there are no shortcuts in Algebra!

[Locutus]

If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times.  School is less about teaching facts and figures than it is about teaching a way of thinking that allows students to work through problems.

Bingo! Bingo! Bingo!