Have any of you even TRIED watching a YouTube video advocating for the new math curriculum?
Posted on 06/25/2016 7:42:48 AM PDT by Hojczyk
When Independent Journal Review asked Donald Hense, Chair and CEO of Friendship Public Charter Schools in D.C., if he felt that Common Core’s way of solving math problems is working, he said “give it time”
:We’re no longer saying 2 + 2 = 4; it has taken some time and it’s going to take some time for teachers to become proficient.”et,
I’ve met two teachers’ assistants, who make less than 12K a year, one who had been on the job for 20 years. Through tears, she said, “we were there to help these confused students after the lessons, with their homework; Common Core math was impossible for them and for us. I felt so inadequate, I had to leave the kids, this was the last straw.”
(Excerpt) Read more at ijr.com ...
My wife used a watermelon to teach math and much more fist second
If I can remember
Weight the watermelon …learn pounds and ounces
Cut the watermelon …it is a circle
Cut it in half and then quarters
Each kid gets the for quarters to make half and then a circle
They eat the watermelon saving the seeds
Put the seeds in sets of tens and the ones that are left and get the answer
There was more but I cannot remember
She taught with matchbox cars and track
By law, a forced captive audience with no other alternatives and administrators and higher ups in be bureaucratic chain are then free to experiment on the children with different mind control and social engineering techniques all the while pushing the liberal agenda.
Tools of the mind was a technique that failed miserably at my wife's school and left first graders way behind and cost the district hundreds of thousand of dollars. No apologies nor postmortems, they simply moved on to the next “program.”
Another program is investigations math.
Bottom line: what makes the difference are involved parents.
She must have been a wonderful teacher.
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“(Pretty successful so far, don’t you think?)”...
So yesterday I go to ‘check out’ of the opthamologists office and am told I owe $89.72. Give her a $100.00 bill AND 72 cents.... ah, Hell’s Bells ...no sense even relating the rest...
Pathetic what has happened to education re math.......
I read that in the early 70s......
Exactly. Practical arithmetic is useful. Most people do not need mathematical theory
“road to hell is paved with good intentions” effort.
Probably a little bit of both. The problem is that you have doctorate post doctorate level sociologists and anthropology majors making something fairly simple, very complicated and destined to failure. And for some reason, they are stuck on “one size fits all” mantra.
It is as if an overly educated person, who has never held a hammer, is trying to tell a carpenter how to use a hammer.
Glass is half full: my son got a very good education but as parents we are engaged and involved. We had to put him in sylvan once. He is now in college studying engineering and doing very well.
I had nine years of college, deans list in math, engineer ... and I have NO IDEA what that means.
Homeschool!
Have any of you even TRIED watching a YouTube video advocating for the new math curriculum?
Oh, they need it alright. They just don't have it. Which is why there are so many on this thread screaming "burn the witch!"
Cancel out the left and right columns.
Now, do you get it?
“So what does 2 + 2 equal?”
Luckily, that one’s pretty straightforward.
If you take 2 and add 8 to it you get 10. If you take the other 2 and add 8 to it you get another ten. Then if you combine those tens you get 20. Now you had to add two extra “8’s” to get that 20, so you’ll have to remove them now - but you have to do things in tens, so make each “8” a ten, and subtract those two 10’s from 20 and you’ll first get 10, then zero. BUT since the tens you subtracted from the 20 are 2 more than the “8” you actually had before, you have to add to that zero first a 2 (which gives you “2”), then another 2, which gives you “4”.
QED
You think that is something new?
What, the graphic, or being penalized for doing something the easy short old-fashioned way?
The “short, old fashion way” only works for a very limited number of problems. When you get any more complicated than “2+2,” you have always been expected to show your work.
It’s not just the soft science majors. Math instruction and to a lesser extent science instruction are some of the worst offenders. People who are naturally good at math and science who go into teaching in those fields ask themselves how they could be better taught. They think back to how they learned—self discovery! Problem is what may well have worked for them most definitely doesn’t work well for those who aren’t so gifted. We need the “soul-killing” rote memorization to master the basics of both science and math. On that foundation some of us less-gifted ones may discover the the joys and beauties of the subject. But if we never really learn that 7x9=72, were never going to excell in math or science for that matter.
It may well be that this new method enables people to more easily handle math related issues in their day to day lives, but I believe I am destined to make do with what I've got, which seems to serve me well.
FReegards.
I hope you did that on purpose, lol!
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