Idiocracy, the best movie ever made.
It seems to be what the Left and the deep-state want from public schooling - pliant citizens. Blacks and immigrants already seem to be bagged, tagged and in the truck.
I tell you 1 + 1 makes 3
I write a song, then proceed to worship someone who fits the song to a “T”
“You gave me power in your God’s Name!”
Wow, was that ever fulfilled.
And they STILL didn’t “get it”
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Simple math textbooks from the 1940s and earlier are solid ways to teach all of the basics. No nonsense stuff. Those books taught all the basic operations and also taught practical skills regarding business profits, bank loans, investing, handling money, making a budget. All you need.
The education establishment made a conscious choice to move away from such subject matter and instead focus on Set Theory, Matrices, and other silly stuff that led us to Common Core.
We were at a Big Lots last evening to buy a bag of cat food.
The cashier could not make change for a $5.83 bag of cat food from a $10 bill because he didn’t know how unless the computer told him...................
Not “ math “ , but arithmetic .
Idiocracy, the best movie ever made.
A few weeks ago we were in a new seafood restaurant in our area. The female server was maybe 20 and told us the special that day was oysters on the half shell for 75 cents each.
Just to clarify I said “so a dozen is nine dollars right?”
Her reply?........”um....I’m just a server, I don’t do math”.........WHAT??!!
"Community organizing" is not a talent nor a skill set. Engineering, math and true science require work, not participation trophies.
As producing manufacturers have been chased away or lured away from this United States, the skill sets and products must be imported when we can no longer build, produce, manufacture.
Made in China. Hecho in Mexico and all means NOT produced in the US. We must pay others, and then in time we will have less and less with which to pay....
Tick tock. Time to reverse the game.
my Mother was a reading instructor and all ways made good friends with the math teachers.
She felt if students could not read and understand basic English and also, do basic math, they would never really survive in their world.
She retired from public schools when she was 65 and tutored basic reading and math until she was 75.
Before she retired, she was warning and predicting, what would happen in most of our public schools.
I remember when I was in grade school (1970’s) kids would lament that they had to learn algebra and geometry because they would never use it. I had to take 2 semesters of calculus in college haven’s really used much of it. However I did use algebra and geometry almost every day in my professional life.
There you go....
Americans have poor math skills. It’s a threat to US standing in the global economy, employers say:
The nation needs people who are good at math, employers say, in the same way motion picture mortals need superheroes. They say America’s poor math performance isn’t funny. It’s a threat to the nation’s global economic competitiveness and national security.
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The Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, is documenting the math crisis facing schools and highlighting progress. Members of the Collaborative are AL.com, The Associated Press, The Christian Science Monitor, The Dallas Morning News, The Hechinger Report, Idaho Education News, The Post and Courier in South Carolina, and The Seattle Times.
Extracted: https://apnews.com/article/math-scores-china-security-b60b740c480270d552d750c15ed287b6