Let me know what you guys think about this train of thought before I post it on social media:
An explanation of all those Common Core v Traditional Arithmetic complaints:
Let’s say you’re in a cooking class, one which is graded by a teacher.
You spend a semester learning how to sharpen, hold, and slice with a six-inch chef’s knife.
You have a test where you must dice an onion.
You peel an onion and throw it into a food processor.
Even though you end up with a diced onion, you didn’t use any skills you were taught that semester, and the teacher says you did it “wrong”.
You complain that the onion ended up diced, and argue that using a knife is stupid.