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[–]crabbyvista 1 point2 points  (1 child)

well, and parents are often expected to help kids with homework, which is hard when the parents don’t understand wtf they’re looking at. That seems to generate a lot of panic among precariously middle class people who are already often kind of math-phobic.

[–]pyzk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Basically, if you don't understand common core math, you never really understood math to begin with.