The topic of Common Core seems to have caused a rift in the educational community but like it or not, these standards are here to stay. We were curious as to why educators decided to implement this new system of learning so we did a bit of research.
To understand the direction our educational platform is moving in, we first have to understand the way we learned “when we were in school”. Stacks of flashcards for multiplication tables, pages of the same types of addition or subtraction problems- it all came down to rote memorization.