Interesting Findings in Fordham’s Teacher Survey on Common Core Math

Shane Vander Hart looks at some of the results of the Fordham Institute’s recent survey of K-8 math teachers addressing Common Core Math.
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Shane Vander Hart looks at some of the results of the Fordham Institute’s recent survey of K-8 math teachers addressing Common Core Math.
Jay Matthews at The Washington Post wrote another piece about the crisis in our nation’s math instruction under Common Core.
The American Principles Project Foundation has just published “Common Does Not Equal Excellent.” Focusing on the K-8 Common Core Math Standards.
Melissa Strzala, an Ohio mom, gave a math tutorial that has gone viral on Facebook showing how kids are now doing subtraction due to Common Core.
The Common Core math standards ignore the latest development in brain science and may actually impede a student’s ability to do higher math later on.
Parents are not mystified about Common Core math, they are mortified that something so colossally stupid is being foisted on their children.
“I am extremely concerned about my children being used as guinea pigs in the Department of Education’s misguided quest to reinvent the mathematical wheel.”
A problem for students today is they’re not learning multiplication skills, which impacts learning division skills and that impacts work with fractions.
A report released by the C.D. Howe Institute in Canada demonstrates discovery learning has brought about a decline in Canadian students math skills.
NBC News: Erin Tuttle didn’t think of herself as an activist, until her son came home with math work that looked unfamiliar and confusing.