I have kept my opinion with all the stories and posts regarding Common Core to myself...until now... I want to share a great article on Common Core and how it relates to a deeper understanding of math...believe me when I say that this has been a growing pain for me as a math teacher however I truly believe that this IS the best approach. I dont want my students to just have the chug and plug view of math but to have a deeper understanding of the why Common Core saves us from plug-and chug math and is based on a collection of ideas that do make sense. The rules come from the ideas. Common Core asks students to learn math this way, with both computational fluency and understanding of the ideas. Learning math this way leads to deeper understanding, obviates the need for endless rule-memorizing and provides the intellectual flexibility to apply math in new situations, ones for which the rules need to be adapted. (Its also a lot more fun.) Combining computational fluency with understanding makes for problem solvers who can genuinely use their math. This is what businesses want and what is necessary to use math in a quantitative discipline.
Posted on: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 16:46:32 +0000
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