Posted on 12/30/2019 5:28:56 AM PST by NOBO2012
Before I begin let me say that the objectives of Common Core Math sound good, especially to people like me who need to understand concepts before proceeding to mechanics:
Greater focus on fewer topics
The Common Core calls for greater focus in mathematics. Rather than racing to cover many topics in a mile-wide, inch-deep curriculum, the standards ask math teachers to significantly narrow and deepen the way time and energy are spent in the classroom. This means focusing deeply on the major work of each grade
- In grades K–2: Concepts, skills, and problem solving related to addition and subtraction
- In grades 3–5: Concepts, skills, and problem solving related to multiplication and division of whole numbers and fractions
- In grade 6: Ratios and proportional relationships, and early algebraic expressions and equations
- In grade 7: Ratios and proportional relationships, and arithmetic of rational numbers
- In grade 8: Linear algebra and linear functions
This focus will help students gain strong foundations, including a solid understanding of concepts, a high degree of procedural skill and fluency, and the ability to apply the math they know to solve problems inside and outside the classroom.
This approach, in the abstract, greatly appeals to me as I was never good at memorizing and never “got” math until I understood it conceptually (which I had to figure out on my own as none of my teachers ever taught it that way).
Unfortunately like everything else entrusted to the well-meaning liberal world of academia they failed miserably in the implementation.
Hence we get frustrated parents
and a generation even less proficient in math than previous ill-educated kids.
And now here comes Michael Bloomberg, a man who clearly understands math, speciously announcing his plans for the War on Poverty 2.0.
“As president, my job will be to move all Americans ahead, and that includes committing our country to new and innovative ways to combat poverty. There has to be a war on poverty,” the New York billionaire said while campaigning in Stockton.
What a good idea, especially since the last one worked out so well. After 50 years and $22 trillion the country’s poverty level is only slightly lower then it was the year LBJ launched the first War on Poverty. And that slight drop is due to President Donald J. Trump’s policies, not any of the Washington give-away programs. So using the powers of extrapolation, which you won’t learn in common core math, my suggestion - if we really want to lower the poverty rate in this country - is to reelect the President.
Either that or just give a million dollars to all 40 million poor people in America and save money by cutting out all the middlemen.
Posted from: MOTUS A.D.
Howzabout we declare a War on Stupidity
If the USA would have been using CC in the 50’s, we would NEVER have landed on the moon. The communists have taken over our education system, part of the larger plan to dumb down America.
If all the money which has been spent on the poor had instead just been given to the poor, the poor would be rich.
Dear Jack. The number line shows a subtraction (moving leftward toward the 0-origin) of 3 100’s and then of 6 1’s. The scale is poor but the printed labels are clear. That’s 306. The problem says 316. Lines really help if you depart from using just positive numbers.
just sayin . . .
For those who have an aptitude for math, put them in AP classes. Most people only need a good understanding of the basics of adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing. Teach them how to balance a checkbook and calculate their expenses.
I disagree. A bunch of them would have overdosed on expensive new drugs. A bunch of them would be bankrupt after having blown the money on fancy new toys. And only a small percentage of them would have entered the middle class and properly used the money to further their families
Poverty in this country is NOT a resource problem. It is a character problem. Anyone can lift themselves out of poverty. Work hard in school, get a job, improve your skills, get a better job etc. But most poor people do not have the character to do those things.
Understanding the concepts of percentages is also very important. Politicians and so-called journalists are frequently very lacking in mathematics, but they know how to fool the public when it comes to percents.
What’s wrong with tbe math on the New England/Miami bet? the -1600 means New England is the heavy favorite and you need to bet $1600 to win $100 more back. The net winnings came up 2.5 cents off, but the bookies may have abandoned pennies and half-pennies.
Baraq Soetoro is the only person who “got” Common Core and benefitted from it. He engineered a contract to the publisher of the CC curriculum worth hundreds of millions of dollars and received a 65 million dollar book deal in return.
I haven't needed any of the the math I never learned in high school. Skipping geometry class to go smoke in the woods behind the school was the best use of that hour......
“If the USA would have been using CC in the 50’s, we would NEVER have landed on the moon. The communists have taken over our education system, part of the larger plan to dumb down America.”
Hold the WH and Senate. Take back Congress. Then spend the next two years fixing the education system in the US.
COMMON CORE STUPID
Government needs problems. Common Core’s intent is to hurt your child.
Those protesting union teachers are there to hurt your child.
Parents, your stupid kid is your fault for allowing the Govt to poorly educate your child. I hope he grows up to haunt you.
“...Either that or just give a million dollars to all 40 million poor people in America and save money by cutting out all the middlemen.....”
Within five years, most of em would all be “poor” again.
Just look at the finances of most of the big-time lottery winners.
Basic money management skills are lacking as much as plain old math skills, if not worse. Common core serves to only make it much worse...on purpose.
MATH or LUCK, Choose wisely.
People do not need all that math.
We call that Public School Stupid. People abused in bad schools actually defend and dismiss the abuse. The opportunity cost/lost from poor math creates bad risk.
Homeowners across America must redo all that shabby home improvement work, the bad decks, the dangerous wiring, the misfit upkeep, all because the prior owner learned poor math. He thinks he did not need all that math.
The inability to calculate a mortgage, or an investment strategy, the money illiteracy is caused by poor math. He thinks he did not need all that math.
Ignorance is bliss.
The ignorant do not know what they are missing.
The ignorant do not know what they lack.
The elite push poor math learning so that they can take your money and sell you slave debt.
Only dummies, do not need all that math.
Their success in life is hence over weighted and over dependent on luck.
Luck is not a life strategy.
Fortune is not a life strategy.
Math saved me when luck did not.
The Common Core calls for greater focus in mathematics. Rather than racing to cover many topics in a mile-wide, inch-deep curriculum, the standards ask math teachers to significantly narrow and deepen the way time and energy are spent in the classroom. This means focusing deeply on the major work of each grade
After years of this kids are being sent to high school who cannot do simple multiplication (like 7 x 9) without resorting to a calculator.
I also use little I learned the art and music classes I had to take. And OMG those painful sessions about interpreting prose and poetry written in nearly unintelligle 14th or 15th century English.
I became and engineer so the math turned out to be useful for me.
Bottom line - In general most of what is taught is not used. But getting a bit of the beyond basics stuff is a good way to learn if you have the aptitude to go on. In any of those subjects.
Jack and Jill went up the hill each with a buck and a quarter...
That is a very large theater of operations.
I have seen other people in careers that would have been significantly easier for them had they known some math.
Since it is a lot easier to learn math while young, it would be better to have those lessons in school early. Also, and very important, mathematical reasoning can be applied to other challenges in life. It is a superb tool in training the mind for critical thinking and problem solving.
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