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The “NEW” way to do math “via Common Core” should make you mad!!!

  Are you upset with this “new way” they are doing math now days in school?  If so, you really should be upset about the way you were taught math when you were in school!!!  I sure am, and the teachers and college students I work with are as well.  Every time I do a […]

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Traditional Algorithms SUCK!!!

Now, let me be clear…I am in no means in love with Common Core.  There are a few issues that I see in the math content standards, there are issues with the implementation piece that has been put upon teachers’ shoulders, and there are issues with the testing aspect.  But most of that is not […]

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K-5 Elaboraborations of Common Core Math Practice Standards

These past few days I have been learning lots at the Teachers Development Group‘s Leadership Seminar!  I have taken away a lot as a “coach” but there are two things in particular I want to share for teachers, here is the one for today…and to intrigue you, the other idea is using strategies from Literacy […]

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Common Core Curriculum is not the same as Common Core Standards

I could not have said this better!  These thoughts have been mulling around in my brain for a few weeks but didn’t quite have the right way to say it until I read Fawn Nguyen’s interview over at A Math Babe’s blog.  So I’ll start with her eloquent thoughts: “I understand that the standards are […]

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K-2 PARCC Content Emphases and Frameworks

I have spent most of this week over in a school district near Portland, OR doing trainings for almost all of their Title 1 Kindergarten through 2nd grade teachers.  One of the activities we did together was investigating the Content Emphases (download it at the bottom of the linked page) for each grade level Kindergarten through […]

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Balancing The Equation

Welcome to my piece of the Balancing The Equation blog hop book study!  If you are just joining in, the blog hop is almost over…however, there are links at the bottom of this post to everything so that you can go back to the posts about the other chapters.  Make sure you head over and […]

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