[Kathi K03/14/2015 at 6:27 pm
I am a 65-year-old whose SAT math score in the 1960s was 736 of 800. I was also one of the last classes who learned the old math before NYC schools introduced the first of what would become a series of the new math experiments. You remember the new math. It was responsible for generations of kids who had to remove their shoes to count above 10, and the phrase, Why Johnny Cant Add. Common Core seems to be just another in the series of educational failures. Despite its claim to teach children an understanding of how things work with numbers, I see more and more children who are more and more confused about how to process mathematical ideas. The saddest thing to me was when I showed my confused and tearful teen-aged granddaughter how to quickly solve her algebra problems. She grasped the old math concepts the first time around. But, she said, still in tears, I cant do it this way because I have to show my work and the teacher will give me a zero unless I do it HER way. And I dont understand what she is doing!]
Tell me that the teachers don't have blame for their work in the dumbing down of American children in public schools, a scourge of education and moral teaching.
making CC supporting politicians do CC math...brilliant idea!
It destroys the normal intellect in favor of the two digit IQ crowd.
Don’t write CC in cursive because they’re not going to teach cursive anymore. Any more “improvements” and they’ll be making their mark instead of writing their name.
0bama and his merry band are doing everything they can to hurt America - even reluctant liberals are beginning to admit that he must be “not on our side”.
this common core is just another spear headed to the heart
You could tell that by who supports it.
OUTSTANDING post! Thanks. HOORAY Karen Lamoreaux! BTTT!
Communist core.
Another comment:
GEORGE GIANOPULOS
@Joanna:
“Tennessee also opted out of Common Core but adopted state standards that mirror Common Core, use the same curricula and testing. Its a farce and cover up. Better check up on whats happening in Texas. The curriculum is produced by a UK firm, Pearson, that is owned by a majority of Muslim sheiks. The single largest share holder is Omar Gaddahfis son, as in Libya! 7th grade world history contains a 16 page unit on Islam, full of lies and distortions to make Islam look peaceful and enticing. Students are required to memorize the 5 Pillars, pray the Muslim confession of faith, practice a Muslim fast, even the steps necessary to become a Muslim. Try to present the Christian plan of salvation in a government school and see what happens. The ACLU is silent about Islam in Common Core or state standards!!”
A poster downthread said Perry outlawed common core in 2013.
I remember too that we were warned 50 yrs ago that everything was going to be metric and we had better start learning it and doing it or else....
a lot of problems have come up because are kids are using calculators for everything, digital watches instead of knowing how to read a circular watch...
I forget a lot of things but to my amazement I know our checking account number, numerous passwords, my credit card number plus the exp date and the 3 little code on the back....
can kids even remember things anymore?...do they even try....
when my youngest was in grade school she came home with a marked up quiz and I asked her about it..."oh the teacher said I was doing great because I know the concept"....not the numbers, or the math, nor the reason you do things, but she knew the "concept"..
that my friends is our problem...our younger generations have been taught that they really can do no wrong, that everything is acceptable...
the teacher will give me a zero unless I do it HER way —
I’ll bet the teacher can’t even do it her own way, she is ‘reading off the teleprompter’, i.e., teacher’s manual.
Run out of toes or calculator or something. I’m getting to be an old engineer. The kids just emit a low gasp when I work problems in my head while talking and get the answer in two decimal places before they can queue up their smart phone calculator.
My Dad was an old engineer. He taught me math and if my numbers were not neatly printed and neatly aligned I had to start over before he would help me. He taught slide rule IN COLLEGE! Yes, it was a class or part of a class in numerical methods. The slide rule was over 6 feet long on a big carriage that rotated it. I learned to use at least part of a slide rule before I started grade school. You had to be able to estimate numbers and place the decimal. I still carry a small K&E in the truck to check the gas mileage.
There is something even worse than “dumbing down” schools, and that is unnecessarily frustrating young students, Which is the number one crime of Common Core, closely followed by methodology which removes supportive parents from their children’s’ education.
Removing parents from the equation is the depth of stupidity. There is already an unfortunate lack of parental involvement in the education of kids. Common Core makes that situation worse.
Do you know why?
Because Obama's Dept of Education has tied ALL Federal funding that schools receive at the state and local level to Common Core.
Wrong. Mrs. L. should have told the board point blank the parents will campaign against each and every board member who does not change the curriculum immediately.
One of the functions and objectives of Common Core is to drag the performance of the normal to smart students down to the level of the underperformers.
That way no one will feel bad at being outperformed by another student.
The lowest common denominator becomes the norm.
Performance beyond that level is punished, not rewarded.
That’s Ok, the school that MY CHILDREN go to WOULD NEVER use those silly Common Core methods (even though they, of course, use Common Core). No the school that MY CHILDREN go teaches math PROPERLY.
How do I know that? Why the nice teachers and administrators told me that and since I saw one of them in my church, I trust them all. They WOULD NEVER harm my kids, no NEVER. - and besides, I’d have to give up that boat (oooh, that boat) if my kids were to go to private school (or be home schooled).
(how FReepers RATIONALIZE sending their kids to public schools, DESPITE everything they see about Common Core and other horrible stuff in those schools)
“Yes, I belong to a subversive, secret society.”
“What is it you do?”
“We teach children to read, write, and do arithmetic.”
;’)
Get YOUR children out of the government indoctrination centers - NOW!
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