CURMUDGUCATION: Core: Back Off, Parents

CURMUDGUCATION: Core: Back Off, Parents:

Core: Back Off, Parents

The Hechinger Report ran a piece with the somewhat confrontational title, "Back off parents: It’s not your job to teach Common Core math when helping with homework."

In the piece, Kathlenn Lucadamo argues that parents just need to get out of the business of trying to teach math at home. Her subheading is "What should parents do when they don't understand their kids' Common Core homework?" Her answers? Don't try to be a math guru, talk to the teacher, and teach what you know without stepping on toes.

Some of this advice comes courtesy of Jason Zimba, architect of the Common Core math.

“The math instruction on the part of parents should be low. The teacher is there to explain the curriculum,” said Zimba.

And we're not just talking about calculus.'

The struggle seems to bubble in third grade, said experts, when the math becomes moreCURMUDGUCATION: Core: Back Off, Parents: