NC DPI embraces Common Core wackiness
I recently spent some time reviewing the presentations from the April 2011 Collaborative Conference for Student Achievement (CCSA). The CCSA is an annual conference sponsored by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NC DPI).
During the conference Kitty Rutherford (NC DPI Elementary Mathematics Consultant) and Robin Barbour (NC DPI Secondary Mathematics Consultant) discussed the implementation of the Common Core math standards in North Carolina. According to their Power Point presentation, the first step is to discard two core beliefs about mathematics:
1. All students in a mathematics classroom work on the same problem at
