LogFAQs > #971493216

I think common core is great and extremely easy to understand, even to the people who say it's dumb after looking at the problem for 1 second and not realizing that already do this method all the time in their head. For some reason when it's written down or visual aids are used, people freak out. No your not going to draw boxes and bubbles every time you need to do a simple 1 digit math problem as an adult, those visual aids are not for adults who know calculus, they're for elementary school kids who are learning addition. It's just setting up these elementary school kids to do more advanced math easier.

But the instructions on this problem were written in a confusing way and it took me a while to understand what they were even asking. It's worth noting that I'm not in this classroom, these kids certainly have seen this exact problem (with different numbers) in their regular learning so the instructions won't be as confusing to them as it is to us.