In Common Core math, it often is not good enough to get the correct answer. Instead, students are required to show “higher order” thinking skills,

Kid misses Common Core math problems because he didn’t use ‘friendly’ numbers

In Common Core math, it often is not good enough to get the correct answer. Instead, students are required to show “higher order” thinking skills — in this case, use of the associative property. Yes, the associative property is important and should be taught at some point. Unfortunately, we suspect that many 7-year olds will not be able to understand this particular assignment. With limited days in the school year, wouldn’t second graders — second graders! — be better off spending their time attempting to master the traditional subtraction algorithm?

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