Common core arithmetic/math seems designed to prevent the students from learning basic functions. It complicates the simplest problems. Rote learning was used for centuries and worked very well for the vast majority of students. The “leaders” of the educational establishment thought they could improve what worked by replacing it with a counter-intuitive system that is clunky, unwieldy and confusing. Just like “whole word” language versus phonics.
Unfortunately, it’s the children who will pay for such idiocy. Both now and in the future.
Which is exactly what lawyers do. Exactly what bureaucrats do. Exactly what liberals do......
>>Common core arithmetic/math seems designed to prevent the students from learning basic functions.
A necessary step for the caste system that the Elites plan for us in the future. The lower castes will actually believe that they are inferior because they won’t know “their numbers and words” and the Bureaucrat and Elite castes will seem to be like a different species.
So, when the lower castes get told that they are to line up for eradication, they will do it like cattle in a slaughter pen.
Gotta marvel at how these ‘educators’ perceive themselves as so brilliant that they can come up with ever new concepts that no one else can figure out to replace what anyone CAN figure out, easily. Our daughter was taught some form of ‘whole word’ language nonsense. She was one of the lucky ones. Figured out how to spell properly by 5th grade.
To this day my 25 yo cannot spell worth shite thanks to the whole word concept.
You don’t need to be all learnin’ ‘n she-it.
Just push the button that looks like a hamburger.