Math is on life support. Can we save it?

American Thinker ^ | October 21, 2014 | Bruce Deitrick Price

[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.

[onedoug]

Ours is a logical God. It’s not a coincidence that the left is trying to keep children from learning logical thinking.

I think you're onto something there.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

This pre-dates common core, though common core embraced it. If someone decided years ago to eliminate American innovation by sabotaging our children’s math skills, they have succeeded.

[Jeff Chandler]

Dear Math, stop asking me to find your x, she’s not coming back.

I don't know y either.