<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Jon Ares via Stagecraft wrote:<br><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;">I'm no math person, and every day, in whichever math class I had, I could learn and do the work that day. Go home at night, and do the homework. The next day, we learned "something new." To my brain, it was like something new: I could do it that day, and that evening, but couldn't do what we learned the previous day. On Fridays, the only thing I could do on the quiz was what was in Thursday night's homework.</span></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>That’s probably because you weren’t taught using the new “Common Core” system. You were expected to do in three simple steps which students today realise requires 27 steps and a lot of circles drawn over your paper! :-)</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></div><div apple-content-edited="true">
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