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<blockquote data-quote="Fire Sweep Ranch" data-source="post: 1279973" data-attributes="member: 18809"><p>Being a teacher and having kids in school, I can tell you common core does not work. A perfect example was this weekend; we were taking the kids and their cattle to a show. My middle daughter, 13 and in Algebra (8th grade) was working on her homework and asked me what 36 times 4 was. I quickly blurted out 144, and she waited a few seconds before she started to argue with me that I was wrong and it was 124 not 144. I wrote out on a piece of paper how I came to that answer, but did it quickly in my mind. She then argued that my math was faulty, and preceded to tell me the long way that she did it. After a heated argument, she finally realized that she forgot to carry the 2 when multiplying the 6x4, and then got mad because I had figured it out so quickly in my head but she could not. The kind of math she is learning is so much harder than the way I was taught. And she is extremely bright! Her school is small. But she is one of three 8th graders in a freshman class.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fire Sweep Ranch, post: 1279973, member: 18809"] Being a teacher and having kids in school, I can tell you common core does not work. A perfect example was this weekend; we were taking the kids and their cattle to a show. My middle daughter, 13 and in Algebra (8th grade) was working on her homework and asked me what 36 times 4 was. I quickly blurted out 144, and she waited a few seconds before she started to argue with me that I was wrong and it was 124 not 144. I wrote out on a piece of paper how I came to that answer, but did it quickly in my mind. She then argued that my math was faulty, and preceded to tell me the long way that she did it. After a heated argument, she finally realized that she forgot to carry the 2 when multiplying the 6x4, and then got mad because I had figured it out so quickly in my head but she could not. The kind of math she is learning is so much harder than the way I was taught. And she is extremely bright! Her school is small. But she is one of three 8th graders in a freshman class. [/QUOTE]
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