Believe it or not, common core math actually had a methodology as to why they changed it the way it did. It came out completely retarded because what it essentially boils down to is trying to make average and below IQ students people think like gifted students, which is never going to work. What they did was they talked to a whole bunch of gifted math students to find out how they did math, which was predictably some non-standard way of doing it. Then, the mid-wits at the Department of Education attempted to understand it themselves, fucked it up, and the result is what they're teaching kids. That's why your nephew thinks it's stupid - because it was an ego project that no one will recognize as broken because they don't want to admit they were wrong.
Had my 10 year old nephew show me division and multiplication by common core standards. Even he thinks its stupid.
Believe it or not, common core math actually had a methodology as to why they changed it the way it did. It came out completely retarded because what it essentially boils down to is trying to make average and below IQ students people think like gifted students, which is never going to work. What they did was they talked to a whole bunch of gifted math students to find out how they did math, which was predictably some non-standard way of doing it. Then, the mid-wits at the Department of Education attempted to understand it themselves, fucked it up, and the result is what they're teaching kids. That's why your nephew thinks it's stupid - because it was an ego project that no one will recognize as broken because they don't want to admit they were wrong.
Or somebody had stock in a text book publisher is now several millions richer.
Of course. It’s always “follow the money”.