He feels the math instruction at Abigail's public elementary school in Manhattan is subpar - even after the school switched to the Common Core State Standards.īut Zimba, a mathematician by training, is not just any disgruntled parent. "I would be sleeping in if I weren't frustrated," Zimba says of his Saturday-morning lessons, which he teaches in his pajamas. If she doesn't, the problem goes back in the box, to try the following week. If she gets the answer "lickety-split," as her dad says, she can check it off. Claire, 4, draws on a worksheet while Abigail, 7, pulls addition problems written on strips of paper out of an old Kleenex box decorated like a piggy bank. Jason Zimba, one of the writers of the Common Core, waits while his daughters play.Įvery Saturday morning at 10 a.m., Jason Zimba begins a math tutoring session for his two young daughters with the same ritual.
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