# Common Core Math

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**Created:** [September 10, 2018, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-core-math/821118 "2018-09-10T19:27:12Z")\
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> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#):
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> That is true scottsman bullshit.
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> If that is the way it is being taught then that is common core.

IIUC correctly, “Common Core” is a What, not a How. Common Core defines what children are learning, not the way it’s being taught.

Previous thread in GQ: [What Common Core math technique was that check mocking?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=769545)

In that thread, **even sven** said

> [@What Common Core math technique was that check mocking?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-core-math-technique-was-that-check-mocking/732162/2):
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> Just a clarification, but the Common Core is a set of standards, along the lines of “by grade X, children shall be able to do Y”. It does not specify any particular method or teaching technique.  
> …  
> So this is not a “Common Core” technique, because such a thing does not exist.

But other posters are disputing this, including **Joey P** , who seems to have the same complaint you have.

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