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.
Today, 25 yo can't make change for a dollar without a phone calculator. Many can't read cursive writing. Many have never read "1984", "Animal Farm", no Shakespeare, No classics at all, They don't know what the Constitution even says, They don't know about the Civil War, WWI&2, They don't even know who we fought in WWII. You can literally ask many of them who we fought in the Viet Nam war and they don't know. Now days, they can't even look in their underwear and tell you definitively that they are boys or girls. But they will tell you we have less than 10 years to live on this dying planet. Anything coming from someone under 30 should be treated as if a monkey said it.
So glad my daughter goes to a high school where the entire math curricula was developed by the teachers over the last 50 years. It’s very rigorous.
She just finished Calc 3 for college credit as a high school senior. They administered the same exam used at the uni. She said it was easy. Diff Eq in the spring semester. Then off to engineering school.
Public high school, BTW.
Many of them don’t care.
They don’t care that others before them struggled and sacrificed to make it possible for them to live how they live.
They have no curiosity about how we got here.
My dog would eat every last fig.
The fond praise "Yankee Ingenuity" would be stricken from the memory of subsequent generations and the very diversity of thought and coming at problems from different approaches, the great strength of our nation, would go the way of our Constitutional rights.
Poverty is, most often, the result of bad personal choices.
I wonder if the ‘CC math’ was being used by those who launched the Boeing space vehicle & got the ‘clock’ wrong, causing the failure of the mission???
...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.”””
I remember about 10 +++ years go that Santa Ana, Calif had a chronic problem with one particular homeless person sleeping/urinating. etc. , on the steps of the City Hall, Courthouse.
The city kicked this guy off time & gain & he kept coming back and openly creating a health problem.
The ACLU ? finally sued on his behalf because the city was harassing him. He was paid $250,000 == plenty of $$$ to clean up his life & get some stability.
A TV station found him ONE YEAR later—and interviewed him. He was penniless & could NOT account for where the funds had gone.
If somehow the development of computers had been restricted to engineers trained using Common Core, we would just be coming out with the Commodore 64 in time for 2020.
Jill came down with $2.50. Hooooo!
Little Boy Blue......He needed the money!
8^)
Fixed it...
Unfortunately like everything else entrusted to the well-meaning crooked liberal world of academia they failed miserably in the implementation
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