The video below is Video is Amanda August, Grayslake D46 Curriculum Director explaining the focus of Common Core Math: Published on Jul 19, 2013
Video Segment Transcript:
Amanda August: "But even under the new common core if even if they said 3 * 4 was 11, if they were able to explain their reasoning and explain how they came up with their answer. Really in words and oral explanation and they showed it in a picture but they just got the final answer wrong. We're more focused on the how and the why."
Parent: "Will we be correcting them?"
Amanda August: "Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. We want our students to compute correctly. But the emphasis is moving more to the explanation, and the how, and the why, and can I really talk through the procedures that I went through to get at this answer -- and not just knowing its 12, but why its 12. But the emphasis is really moving on toward the explanation and the how and the why and can I really talk through the procedures that I went through to get the answer."
The next 5 videos are an in depth exploration of Common Core and what it means to our children's education in the government schools.
If you live in a “local control” state in terms of public education – and North Carolina is – here is some enlightening news. Your local school board probably has the legal right to remove your school district from the new Common Core academic standards that are being forced on school districts around the nation by state education officials. Legislators and (state education departments) have, in my opinion, kept this information very close to the vest. That is deceit of the ugliest kind.
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