• DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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    10 months ago

    I think their opposition to common core was as simple as "that wasn’t how I was taught math, therefore it is bad and wrong and shouldn’t be done. With an possible addition of “the kids these days shouldn’t have it easy and should be taught math in the obtuse and terrible way I was.”

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      10 months ago

      To be fair I don’t the parents consider CC to be easier, at least from their limited understanding. It seemed harder and more obtuse because back then all they had to do was carry a number to the next number and not think about why it works.

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        10 months ago

        Yeah it is probably just the first, conservatives are the epitome of “They changed it which means it’s bad now.”

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      10 months ago

      I was absolute trash at math and my parents has a hard time helping me cause we had to use the methodology taught by the school and ‘show your work’. They said they just wished there was a parent teacher night to teach them this stuff so they could help, cause they would have to reverse engineer how they were taught into the way I was being taught and it was a whole thing. Sometimes the methods were just wayyyy too over explainy as well.