'This year, math has gotten real.'
The answers I can handle. Of course, I know that four multiplied by five is 20, but am I sure that the array and tape diagram she created to prove that equation are done correctly? Not even a little bit, sometimes even after I've employed the help of Google and texted a third grade mom friend.
Last week, it got so bad that I found myself being scolded, then schooled by my daughter when I evidently gave her the wrong process to complete a problem. In that moment, being instructed on the right way to solve a simple multiplication equation by my 8 year old, I had an epiphany. Maybe this was exactly the point of Common Core, of the inexplicable complexity of third grade math: it forces kids to teach their clueless parents and not the other way around.
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