Common Core Argumentative Essay

In a country that is always trying to fix its education system and always failing, the United States introduced another idea, the Common Core. Common Core is a standard that details what a student in grades K-12 should know that school year. 46 states initially had accepted these standards. Common Core has been around since 2007, but has taken effect recently. Despite it being accepted by 46 states, that doesn’t necessarily mean that it would be kept by those states. Rightfully so since then at least 13 states have asked to have these standards repealed and Indiana has withdrawn from the standard completely. Common Core is unacceptable for schools and needs to be removed because it does not help prepare a student, it is inefficient, and it

Students instead are compelled to do math problems that require a supererogatory amount of unnecessary steps to solve. Prior to Common Core, that exact question would be done in half the time. Not only does it take long, Common Core ditches common sense completely. Some like Tyrone Howard, a professor at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education, say supporters believe the Core will help students “develop what are called ‘21st Century skills’ - how to problem-solve, how to think critically.” this doesn’t mean making questions such as ‘90 divided by 18’ start a question that requires only a simple process to find the answer into a 108 steps.

Despite all this it still lacks in efficiency, Not only is it inefficient it also confuses students, especially those who already have been exposed to the prior way of teaching. As a result of this, students are having a difficult time understanding the thought process that is vital for Common Core. Considering that a new rule being introduced can’t easily revamp a student’s already solidified learning habits students learn that the way to solve addition problems is by adding yet for the new way of learning students instead must imagine the problem as “number bonds”. Examples such as that, and subtraction questions that Common Core expects the students to interpret as columns, show that this new way of teaching overcomplicates math questions for students and is undoubtedly more difficult for them to grasp the “Common Core” way of thinking. For example a third grader was taking a quiz and on that quiz was a question asking them to solve ‘5x3’ by using repeated addition. The student wrote ‘5+5+5= 15’ that must be correct right? Wrong. The ‘Common Core’ way of thinking was ‘3+3+3+3+3’ instead and as a result of this the student had the answer incorrect. Questions like this show how ridiculous this new standard is and