[who_would_fardels_bear]

When the robots takeover the few sane and sensible humans remaining will not necessarily be rooting for their fellow humans.

[DannyTN]

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

[BenLurkin]

Math must die so right-think can prosper.

[Norm Lenhart]

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’.

[piroque]

Sometimes things just don’t add up .

[SkyDancer]

And of course cursive writing is not being taught either in some schools.

[Uncle Miltie]

I can confirm that getting the right answer will not get you credit.

Showing your work while getting the wrong answer gets you credit.

[Resettozero]

Math is on life support. Can we save it?

Nonsense. Math will always be alive and useful. Without it, no mixtures would be accurate and all meth labs would explode. Without Math alive and well, thieves won't be able to tally what they've stolen. Without math, no one in the future will EVER be able to calculate how many angels dance on the head of a pin. Pure nonsense.

[afraidfortherepublic]

BTTT

This is what scares me the most about Common Core. We will be raising a generation of math illiterates.

[martin_fierro]

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.

[afraidfortherepublic]

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.

[WayneS]

...[w]e want our students to compute correctly but the emphasis is really moving more towards the explanation, and the how, and the why, and ‘can I really talk through the procedures that I went through to get this answer,' and not just knowing that it’s 12, but why is it 12? How do I know that?"

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.

[Mastador1]

Well I’m not sure, I just had my grandson calculate the odds using his new taught methodology and he came up with this: 2+3+17+92=Banana. I think were screwed!

[KarlInOhio]

When is the wrong answer the right answer? Now. Today.

Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself. - The Prisoner

[PATRIOT1876]

2 + 2 = whatever the government TELLS YOU it equals.

Reality is not important. In fact it's unwanted. Proof of this can be seen whenever a government shill vomits out more global warming nonsense.

[kosciusko51]

A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

Even worse under CC.

[cuban leaf]

LOL at those that still send their kids to public school.

[BlatherNaut]

Math is on life support. Can we save it?

Homeschool.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Common Core will probably make certain demographic elements of our society happy; i.e. they will not be able to get a correct answer but will glibly offer an example of their “reasoning.”

[raybbr]

For later perusal...