{"id":487,"date":"2017-07-09T15:29:55","date_gmt":"2017-07-09T19:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nonpartisaneducation.org\/blog1\/?p=487"},"modified":"2017-10-15T22:01:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T02:01:30","slug":"cognitive-science-and-the-common-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nonpartisaneducation.org\/blog1\/2017\/07\/cognitive-science-and-the-common-core\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognitive Science and the Common Core"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New in the <a href=\"http:\/\/nonpartisaneducation.org\">Nonpartisan Education Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Cognitive Science and the Common Core Mathematics Standards<\/p>\n<p>by Eric A. Nelson<\/p>\n<p>Abstract<\/p>\n<p>Between 1995 and 2010, most U.S. states adopted K\u201312 math standards which discouraged memorization of math facts and procedures.\u00a0 Since 2010, most states have revised standards to align with the K\u201312 Common Core Mathematics Standards (CCMS).\u00a0 The CCMS do not ask students to memorize facts and procedures for some key topics and delay work with memorized fundamentals in others.<\/p>\n<p>Recent research in cognitive science has found that the brain has only minimal ability to reason with knowledge that has not previously been well-memorized.\u00a0 This science predicts that students taught under math standards that discouraged initial memorization for math topics will have significant difficulty solving numeric problems in mathematics, science, and engineering. \u00a0As one test of this prediction, in a recent OECD assessment of numeracy skills among 22 developed-world nations, U.S. 16\u201324 year olds ranked dead last.\u00a0 Discussion will include steps that can be taken to align K\u201312 state standards with practices supported by cognitive research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New in the Nonpartisan Education Review: Cognitive Science and the Common Core Mathematics Standards by Eric A. Nelson Abstract Between 1995 and 2010, most U.S. states adopted K\u201312 math standards which discouraged memorization of math facts and procedures.\u00a0 Since 2010, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nonpartisaneducation.org\/blog1\/2017\/07\/cognitive-science-and-the-common-core\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,80,31,208,114,32,47],"tags":[209],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-prep","category-common-core","category-education-policy-2","category-eric-a-nelson","category-essa","category-k-12","category-mathematics","tag-eric-a-nelson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonpartisaneducation.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonpartisaneducation.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonpartisaneducation.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonpartisaneducation.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonpartisaneducation.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nonpartisaneducation.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"https:\/\/nonpartisaneducation.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonpartisaneducation.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonpartisaneducation.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonpartisaneducation.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}