Posted on 10/21/2014 11:03:48 AM PDT by right-wing agnostic
When is the wrong answer the right answer? Now. Today.
Reality alert: we have entered an alternative universe, thanks to Common Core. As people once scorned wrong answers, we will now learn to scorn right answers. Answer-getting (that’s the new jargon) will be held up for contempt, and slowly eliminated. That’s the plan.
This is not marginal nonsense. No, it is already mainstream nonsense. Phil Daro is one of the three principal writers of the Common Core Mathematics Standards. A 17-minute video about his ideas is promoted this way: “Phil Daro goes into detail on the problems of ‘Answer-getting,’ one of the practices that the new Common Core Standards intend to greatly reduce.”
As Phil Daro himself asks, “Are You Teaching Mathematics or Answer-Getting Strategies?” What sort of fool would think these were the same thing? No, they are now opposites.
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When the robots takeover the few sane and sensible humans remaining will not necessarily be rooting for their fellow humans.
Dear Math, stop asking me to find your x, she’s not coming back.
Math must die so right-think can prosper.
No. We cannot.
Math implies a problem and a solution. A black and a white. Math by it’s nature requires logic, reasoning and deductive analysis.
Each of these things, set free, is a problem for liberal philosophy. Ergo, it must be eradicated lest people apply it’s lessons outside ‘math’.
Sometimes things just don’t add up .
And of course cursive writing is not being taught either in some schools.
I can confirm that getting the right answer will not get you credit.
Showing your work while getting the wrong answer gets you credit.
Math smacks too much of the existence of objective reality and truth.
Can’t have that.
With the inclusion of statistics, all is lost....
BTTT
This is what scares me the most about Common Core. We will be raising a generation of math illiterates.
Just the other night, after placing a fast food order, my husband tried to give the clerk the “right” change, after giving him a $20. The teen-aged clerk could not cope with it and forced my husband to take back his change so that he could give him the amount that the register told him to.
WTF?!? You're trying to teach the children MATH, not Philosophy.
Three multiplied by four is twelve because we humans have agreed that our primary number system will be a base 10 number system. We humans have agreed to use a system of names and characters to represent the various values within that number system: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
Basic Arithmetic/Mathematics are the rules and processes by which we manipulate those characters within the base 10 number system we have chosen to use in order to assist us in our endeavors.
That is all the "explanation" and "how" and "why" a young student needs to know in order to begin learning base 10 mathematics. To teach otherwise is to do a grave disservice to young minds.
Now since the advent of VisiCalc/Lotus 1-2-3/Excel (MatLab/R, etc.) it's more difficult to hide one's tracks....
It is painful to watch one of these newly minted kids try to figure out change without the machine telling them. They don’t know their times tables..and subtraction well enough to make accurate change. You will see them using their fingers..etc. My old 72 yo brain gets there before they do…and right.
But even then they are hard numbers at the end of the day. And ANYthing can be manipulated.
What I’m saying is more core level. The principles of math that make it possible are diametrically at odds to liberal thought. Libs see all in gray so that there can never be a binary solution. Math demands all things are solvable. That there can mistakes and they can indeed be corrected.
Also right and wrong.
I once saw a website that will give you the answer and “show your work”. I don’t remember the URL though
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