A specific accounting of that would be several blog posts long I think, it's quite hard to get specific without cherry-picking particularly bad parts.
I continued to read through 5th grade math curriculum, and really I think it's completely the wrong approach for how children should learn the material. It's hard to summarize everything I dislike about it in just a few sentences. Mainly I think the process should be much more natural. This isn't something that really has to be taught, through 5th grade at least it all comes naturally in the right environment. So the approach is backwards; it's not 'here are the list of skills which should be taught and mastered at each grade' it's here are the ways we foster learning over this 6 year period.
The whole approach of setting these micro-goals, the whole thing is far too low level. When a spec starts at such a low level, it becomes a prescriptive checklist, not a spec.
I continued to read through 5th grade math curriculum, and really I think it's completely the wrong approach for how children should learn the material. It's hard to summarize everything I dislike about it in just a few sentences. Mainly I think the process should be much more natural. This isn't something that really has to be taught, through 5th grade at least it all comes naturally in the right environment. So the approach is backwards; it's not 'here are the list of skills which should be taught and mastered at each grade' it's here are the ways we foster learning over this 6 year period.
The whole approach of setting these micro-goals, the whole thing is far too low level. When a spec starts at such a low level, it becomes a prescriptive checklist, not a spec.