A critical analysis of Common Core math standards
The Common Core State Standards, as you can tell from the contrasting pieces I published this week (here and here), are nothing if not controversial. Until now much criticism has been leveled at the English Language Arts Standards, but here’s a somewhat scary, detailed look at the math standards. It was published on the blog CCSSI Mathematics.
The author of the blog writes anonymously. He is a former high school math teacher and now an attorney in Manhattan. Knowing the times tables helped him pass the bar exam, he said, and he has won cases by knowing math better than his adversaries. A math major in college, he still occasionally teaches part-time to test out some of his evolving theories of math education.
Here’s the blog post, and if you want to follow along with specific it