Common Core Math has one purpose: to help destroy the family by making it impossible for parents to help their kids with their homework.
“Nazi theory indeed specifically denies that such a thing as “the truth” exists. … The implied objective of this line of thought is a nightmare world in which the Leader, or some ruling clique, controls not only the future but the past. If the Leader says of such and such an event, “It never happened” — well, it never happened. If he says that two and two are five — well, two and two are five.”
- George Orwell, “1984”
This is easy!
If you are a Democrat in charge of counting votes in an election, the Democrat candidate gets 6 votes in each of two precincts, and the Republican gets 5 votes in one precinct and 8 in the other, you throw away 3 of the Republican’s votes in the second precinct. That way the Democrat wins both precincts and the election. And anyone who complains is racist!
this “logic” started some time ago....when my now 29 yro dtr came home as a young student she showed me a paper that had all sorts of red marks over it, but my dtr told me the teacher passed her on the quiz anyway because my dtr had a “feel” for the information....
I remember back in the ‘70s I took a class in the so-called New Math.
Set theory and a bunch of other nonsense. It never made sense to me.
Commie Core sounds like the same thing.
When you add it all up, subtract common sense, the answer is Child Abuse.
The question is misleading, but this is exactly how I do math in my head all the time. It’s much easier, at least for me. But I didn’t figure the method out until I was a bit older. Is this how the Chinese teach math?
The teacher got it wrong. The correct answer is:
8 + 5 - 3 = 10. That my friends is a more correct answer than 5 - 3 + 8 = 10.
Then we have 8 + 5 - 1 - .5 + 3.6 - 2.4 - 2.7 = 10.
Am I a genius or what??? I never knew that math could be so creative!!!
I begin to wonder if the idiots teach this way as they are incapable of teaching the old way. Although the old way was merely memorization via rote. It worked for lots of us here, remember flash cards? Too easy, I guess. Teachers would rather over-complicate it to justify their existence. And the only ones to pay for this idiocy will be the kids! Just like when gov’t screws up, we pay for it. Something’s got to be made to change, all the way around.
8 + 5 does equal 10 ...
in base 13
These kids are not going to be functional in society if this is what they are learning. They won’t even be able to work in fast food
It started in the seventies and has now pervaded everything. I called it the “heavy head trip” which had the intent of making people feel stupid. The end result is the student shuts down due to the extreme conflict versus true logic. Reality is now a social construct. The student turns into a drone, afraid to think, lest he be chastised by the “chosen enlightened”.
Based on the teacher’s answer:
“yes you can. take two from five and add it to eight (8 + 2 = 10) then add three.”
What she is really saying is
“Correct”
Because you can take the left paren (which looks like a capital c), followed by the “o” from “you”, followed by the “r” from “from” and “three” (once you spell it out”, followed by the “c” in “can” and finally followed by the “t” in “take”.
The English in the problem is pathetic to begin with but my answer would be:
I made $8.00 and hour one day and $5.00 an hour the next day. I got $13.00 for my work but the Government took $3.00 so all I have is $10.00.
I feel sorry for these poor kids today, what with some jackass school administrator in Kansas trying to make the kids believe they are sexless purple penguins, to Michelle Obama’s North Korean starvation diet for lunch, and then some so-called “teacher” taking a simple, basic arithmetic problem and turning it into a convoluted mess. I don’t see this turning out well for the public schools, which might be a good thing.
So I can make 2 with 13945 and 78. And I can make a bunch of other numbers too. Cool. I’ll just answer 2 to any question now, because as long as there are at least 2, those 2 will be there. And I’ll name them Skippy and Fluffy. I love math now.
Get your children out of the public schools (government indoctrination centers) - NOW!
One of my friends posted something like this on Facebook the other day. It rattled my brain all day long. It just did not make sense.
Until I realized they are getting them to count on their fingers—in units of five and ten.
My daughter has a learning condition that doesn’t allow her to memorize multiplication tables and the like. Her early math days were a disaster, until the problem was diagnosed. A couple of years of special ed programs on the side allowed her to catch up and move along. They used techniques like this—amounting to counting on her fingers.
I understood it when its a special class for a specific reason. But this common core stuff just makes my head hurt. I cannot imagine it is any better for the kids.