Common Core - C'mon, this REALLY is supposed to improve educational outcomes? - Granite Grok

Common Core – C’mon, this REALLY is supposed to improve educational outcomes?

Yeah, and the NY Times keeps claiming that they are to be believed because of the “layers of fact checkers & editors” they have – we’ve seen how that’s worked out, huh?  Well, tell me, how is this real math problem going to make our kids better prepared to complete against others?

Common Core Math Problem - How Many Stickers  See #15, here.  From the Daily Caller:

What, exactly, is the content of this Common Core that’s going to make American kids so much smarter? So far it appears to be a slew of worksheets and tests involving various, incomprehensible arrays of squares and circles.

There are also traditional word problems. Twitchy has found a word problem that may be the most egregiously awful math problem the Common Core has produced yet. 

According to the Twitter user who posted it, the vexing problem came from a friend who is a teacher.

The problem comes from a Houghton Mifflin Assessment Guide. It appears among a larger set of basically similar math problems here. The problem involving Juanita appears on page AG102, nestled among some other problems that are similarly weak and crappy — though not nearly as harrrowing as the problem above.

Houghton Mifflin is Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a huge textbook publisher. The company’s website promises to be “a partner who will share the responsibilities” of the Common Core: “We have created a wide range of content, curricula, and services to support school leaders, teachers and educators, parents, and especially students with this transition.”

With texbooks like this teaching our kids, I’ll be employed forever!

(H/T:  Daily Caller & Twitchy via IJReview)

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