Posted on 03/05/2015 4:48:26 PM PST by Olog-hai
As schools adopt new education standards and rely more on computers in the classroom, a group of New Hampshire senators want to make sure the basics of learning cursive and multiplication tables don’t get left behind.
“You definitely need to teach typing and keyboarding and all of that, but kids do need to be able to sign their names, they do need to be able to read the Founding Fathers documents,” said Republican Sen. Nancy Stiles, the main sponsor of a bill that would require public schools to keep teaching both. “(Cursive) is an art and a skill that shouldn’t be lost.”
The push to keep cursive in the classroom has become a nationwide movement as schools adopt the Common Core education standards, which omit mention of the handwriting style. The K-12 standards, adopted by most states, have drawn widespread criticism. Among other objections, opponents say, the standards complicate math education and take away local and state control over school instruction. …
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Good for New Hampshire.
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I agree. I didn’t learn my multiplication tables until I got involved with home schooling and found out that I was learning every bit as much as our kids were learning!
Six years ago I had a hard time making change. Now I can do plenty of calculations in my head that most people my age need a calculator to perform.
That’s bad, you creepy-ass cracker. LoL
Cursive is a dying form. I have to admit I can hardly read it.
But as a Gen Yer, word processing and computer science replaced it in school. It’s a shame because I can’t read what my grandparents wrote in letters.
And ya didn’t even know you were learning to divide at the same time.
Definitely not dying.
Many forms of writing are inherently cursive, too.
http://lifehacker.com/convert-handwritten-notes-to-digital-text-for-the-best-1583892163
Learning this stuff is the key to building a better society — that’s the meaning of the expression “divide and conquer” ... I think.
I learned the same way and wish Texas would pass this same bill, but add addition tables too.
Huh??
As opposed to the Mexican ploy of multiplying and conquering?
I like that post, good find.
well played
I teach 5th grade math and science. On the first day of school this year, I had exactly two kids out of a total of 46 that knew their multiplication tables by heart. I have about a handful that can read and write in cursive. When I write something in cursive the kids ask me to write it in “English.”
We learned both in 3rd grade.
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