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msanthrope

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41. One of the things I like about Common Core is that it requires that you show your work from the get-

Sat Feb 7, 2015, 04:26 PM

Feb 2015

go. You can't do it in your head.

Children are taught that the work to get to the answer is just as important as the answer.

Wait 'til you get to "lattice" method.

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My Daughter's First Grade Homework. [View all] Quackers Feb 2015 OP

If it were me, I would be having a chat with that teacher. nt avebury Feb 2015 #1

Perhaps that is the way it was taught in class... demmiblue Feb 2015 #2

The teacher did not say the answer was wrong, but there was no "proof" provided. Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #15

So long-established basic math is no longer proof? Fawke Em Feb 2015 #36

Wow. Yes, just wow. Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #38

I think everyrhing has to be googled olddots Feb 2015 #3

I feel your pain. My daughter is 10. She usually quickly gets the answer Vattel Feb 2015 #4

We're all a little upset about this, I suspect, elleng Feb 2015 #5

Isn't the problem giving a first grader homework to begin with? Johonny Feb 2015 #6

+1. n/t pnwmom Feb 2015 #10

Happy I never had to "show" the work. (nt) bigwillq Feb 2015 #7

Something like this? Lex Feb 2015 #8

Obviously the teachers is wrong. Valentines are HEARTS. pnwmom Feb 2015 #9

Good example of Arnie Duncan's Wellstone ruled Feb 2015 #11

First graders do not know how to subtract MineralMan Feb 2015 #12

Once again the OUTRAGE THEY ARENT DOING IT MY WAY is on display here. Warren Stupidity Feb 2015 #18

They don't? LisaL Feb 2015 #21

Me too. I would have been very confused with the graphics Cleita Feb 2015 #30

Different people learn addition/subtraction/multiplication/division in different ways uppityperson Feb 2015 #34

I guess they're introducing first graders to the visual concepts first Warpy Feb 2015 #13

Your daughter is great. raven mad Feb 2015 #14

I always thought that simple arithmetic involved the digits: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0. hobbit709 Feb 2015 #16

You teach that numbers represent things. One circle = 1. Lex Feb 2015 #17

I learned math by using numerals not little circles. Of course that was back in the early 50's. hobbit709 Feb 2015 #19

What do you think the numeral 1 represents? Nevernose Feb 2015 #22

You learned that 1 = one of some thing Lex Feb 2015 #24

By the mid-'60s, "New Math" and number lines were the rage Art_from_Ark Feb 2015 #35

If the teacher wanted an answer in cirlces, then the problem should have said so. LisaL Feb 2015 #20

That's an excellent way to teach basic concepts of math Nevernose Feb 2015 #23

"This is how we answered"... TreasonousBastard Feb 2015 #25

I teach first. roody Feb 2015 #26

That's what I think, too. MrMickeysMom Feb 2015 #31

i've seen this circle thing before and it makes no sense to me... Takket Feb 2015 #27

Fingers and toes are very appropriate ways roody Feb 2015 #39

The circles show how to get the answer graphically. Your version doesn't. That's what "show your ND-Dem Feb 2015 #28

They are taught to solve it using circles Klukie Feb 2015 #29

I didn't get a Valentine Omaha Steve Feb 2015 #32

The teacher is teaching countingbluecars Feb 2015 #33

This is what comes of fetishizing form over substance. tblue37 Feb 2015 #37

Well the teacher is wrong.... whistler162 Feb 2015 #40

One of the things I like about Common Core is that it requires that you show your work from the get- msanthrope Feb 2015 #41