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Priceless: Student Sums Up Common Core Idiocy in a SINGLE Word
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| 07-08-2014
| Gina Cassini
Posted on 07/13/2014 11:46:51 AM PDT by AuditTheFed
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To: AuditTheFed
To: AuditTheFed
Brilliant, that’s the loudest I’ve laughed in recent memory.
To: AuditTheFed
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posted on
07/13/2014 11:52:50 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: AuditTheFed
Explain how you got your answer.
“Math”
To: AuditTheFed
This “could” be explained in algebraic notation, and it might not be all that bad a way to juggle numbers in one’s head. On paper, “common carrying” beats the pants off of “common core.”
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posted on
07/13/2014 11:54:52 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: AuditTheFed
Who would be so stupid as to go through that manipulation to add those two numbers.
Here's a visual on the stupidity. Put a pile of 27 pennies and a pile of 16 pennies on a table. Now go through those manipulations. Absolutely no logic.
To: AuditTheFed
A 5th grader has to be "taught" to do simple addition and subtraction? In my day we were past that level in 2nd Grade.
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posted on
07/13/2014 11:55:52 AM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in Battle!)
To: AuditTheFed
Let’s see: 26 + 17 + ??
6 and 6 are 12. Plus one is 13.
2 and 1 are 3. Plus the carried one from the 13 make 4.
The answer is 43. Took about 5 seconds to do in my head, even without being able to add 6 and 7 directly.
I’m not sure how, exactly, that “common core” method is supposed to come up with an answer.
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posted on
07/13/2014 11:59:44 AM PDT
by
exDemMom
(Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
To: AuditTheFed
Reminds me of the shortcuts I use to do math quicker. The catch is that I can make shortcuts because I understand the underlying basic math. If this is advanced material taught after the basics have been learned then I don’t have a problem with it. If it’s being taught instead of the basics then that’s a problem.
To: exDemMom
26 and 10 is 36, and 7 is 43.
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posted on
07/13/2014 12:03:29 PM PDT
by
morphing libertarian
( On to impeachment and removal (IRS, Open Borders, pro-terrorist, Fast and furious, VA, Benghazi)!!!)
To: AuditTheFed
Wooo-hooo! My husband, who is an aeronautical engineer (and a retired Naval aviator), LOVED this intelligent young man’s answer.
;-)
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posted on
07/13/2014 12:06:43 PM PDT
by
SumProVita
(Cogito, ergo....Sum Pro Vita - Modified Descartes)
To: Yardstick
You are right.
I think they are trying to keep things at 10 and under, so kids can count on their fingers.
(Which I do, as part of my shortcuts, sometimes.)
To: exDemMom
I think you’re supposed to do it like this:
26 + 17 = (30 - 4) + (20 -3)
26 + 17 = (30 + 20) + (-4 -3)
26 + 17 = 50 -7
26 + 17 = 43
Is this simpler, clearer, offer more insight or require fewer manipulations than:
26 + 17 = (20 + 6) + (10 +7)
26 + 17 = (20 + 10) + (6 +7)
26 + 17 = 30 +17
26 + 17 = 43 ?
I’ll keep and open mind. I am sure it will actually end up confusing more gammer skool math teachers than it will enlighten any students.
To: AuditTheFed
Fingers. Inspection. Etc.
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posted on
07/13/2014 12:11:30 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: SumProVita
I would trust an aeronautical engineer to teach common core, but not a public school teacher.
To: AuditTheFed
“That’s real retarded, Sir...”
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posted on
07/13/2014 12:13:15 PM PDT
by
Zeppo
("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
To: Scrambler Bob
One can devise number systems to count to well over 10 just using ones fingers.
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posted on
07/13/2014 12:14:24 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: AuditTheFed
When I'm doing math in my head, I use a lot of tricks like the one here, breaking numbers into parts and dealing with the parts. However, this makes no sense at all when teaching math to grade schoolers. They need to be taught the basic methods of adding and subtracting, carrying, etc. Once they have those down pat, they can start using these tricks when they have to do mental arithmetic.
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posted on
07/13/2014 12:16:39 PM PDT
by
JoeFromSidney
(Book: Resistance to Tyranny. Buy from Amazon.)
To: morphing libertarian
“26 and 10 is 36, and 7 is 43.”
I do it this way mentally...
25 + 15 = 40.
1 + 2 = 3.
40 + 3 = 43.
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posted on
07/13/2014 12:20:43 PM PDT
by
Tigerized
(Keep Calm, Carry On, but Never Give Up.)
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