Professor Defends Common Core Math Standards

 

In an op-ed for USA Today (9/16), Solomon Friedberg, chair of the Math Department at Boston College, defends Common Core math standards, arguing that they encourage students to learn math “with both computational fluency and understanding of the ideas,” thereby eliminating “the need for endless rule-memorizing” and providing “the intellectual flexibility to apply math in new situations.”

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