Posted on 04/05/2024 1:06:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Field-hands in the Workers Paradise have no need of math. /sarc
I got a degree in engineering, that new math (”investigative math” I think they called it) was REALLY a struggle until I figured out what they were trying to do. My one daughter could do it both ways, and my other daughter could only do it the normal way.
Her teacher called us in and said she was failing her math stuff (5th or 6th grade I think). We knew that she was getting the right answers, just not “investigating” them enough.
“Well - go ahead and fail her then. She’s getting the correct answers, and that’s good enough for us. Good enough for anybody I imagine.” (It was grade school - it’s not like they were going to flunk her entire year!)
Later on in older grades we would often say “Boy - aren’t you glad you know your math facts with these bigger problems?”
I think the teacher/school is at fault then for not teaching math.
At home you can Google the answer.
“But when it is too complex for a student to complete even with parent support, it raises the question as to why it was set as a homework task in the first place.
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