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The Daily Signal
Local News Airs
‘Homework Helper’ Videos for Parents Struggling With Common Core
Requirements
Kelsey Harris
September 04, 2014
“When you and I were in school, we used to just memorize 9 plus 6
equals 15. Not anymore. With the Common Core, students need to
understand why that’s the case.”
It took a teacher 56 seconds to explain how to add 9 plus 6.
This is the introduction to the first of six “Homework Helper” segments
Buffalo, N.Y., NBC affiliate WGRZ is broadcasting this week in honor of
back-to-school week. The series is meant to be a helpful tool for
parents confused by their children’s Common Core homework this year.
Each morning, a local math teacher takes one simple homework question,
and spends a few minutes explaining the methodology required to solve
it. Each lesson takes a little over one minute for the teacher to
explain.
But here’s the irony: the one-minute lessons are explaining long
processes for simple problems like 9 plus 6 — math that took children a
few seconds to solve before Common Core standards.
Common Core standards (like them or not) are foreign to everyone. Check
out how Common Core wants children to do basic addition and subtraction
in the videos below.
See the Basic Addition and Subtraction videos at the Daily Signal
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