Katie Couric does a great job of breaking down Common Core. In her video for Yahoo! she addresses the goals/objectives of its existence, and how while the standards are national, the implementation is local. With this comes the growing pangs of trying and testing lessons that will drive the rigor while limiting confusion. As a former math curriculum writer myself, we spent summers rewriting quality lessons so that teachers could more easily and clearly deliver them to students. Often we would abandon a lesson because it was counter productive to the cause (too cumbersome, too wordy, not enough hands on).
http://news.yahoo.com/video/now-common-core-012638311.html
What I love most about Mathnasium is that our curriculum is sound. With thirty years of experience in developing and refining our curriculum, it has become timeless. While we support Common Core wholeheartedly, we realize sound math is sound math. You can't learn B before A, if H isn't making sense then lets revisit G. Mathnasium hasn't rested on its already successful laurels. Our track record of success is outstanding, and yet this summer a revised curriculum launched to make math instruction more meaningful to our students!
I feel so lucky!
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