Posted on 04/08/2025 2:38:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
My friend edits law books. She still thinks 2+2=5.
Wonder how much grant money this raked in.
replace “parents” with “elementary teachers” in the article and it would be just as valid - that’s why they teach elementary grades - because they suck at math
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My parents were very good at arithmetic but couldn’t help much with algebra and beyond. Still, they encouraged me and my brothers to take a math class and a science class every year of high school. Plus, we had a damn good math teacher.
I’ve watched a few videos lately of people going around to “elite” universities and asking students basic questions. Hardly any of them can tell you how much is 3x3x3 and many can’t even tell you how much is 6x7.
Also most of the "teachers" have no idea how to teach.
They have been doing this for three generations so the parents of student can not help their children because the "new" unnecessarily complicated way they were taught is not the same as the "new, new, new" unnecessarily complicated way their kids are being taught.
If you want your kid to be able to do arithmetic and at some point higher mathematics you are going to need to either get them a tutor who knows how to teach or learn how to do it yourself. The internet has a bunch of free resources. Use them.
Or maybe sucking at math causes anxiety and intelligence has a strong genetic component.
Math is hard.
Barbie?
Smart people can do both. Some people can’t.
But people who aren’t good at math are likely to a) have anxiety about it, and b) have kids with similar challenges.
You are right: They have thoroughly screwed up both reading and math with the common core approach. Was implemented by an Oxford Brit and IMO not accidental.
Yes
So the next question is: how many kids live with their father? IIRC, about 1/4th of white kids don't live with their father, and 2/3rds of black kids don't live with their father.
Fix the fatherless problem and you fix most of today's problems in the home. And to fix the fatherless problem we have to pursue the next great awakening so we can undo the harmful effects of the sexual revolution (to me it's more like devolving, than a revolution). Our church predecessors did it before. The First Great Awakening in some ways was a response to the first sexual revolution in Europe. Likewise before that, the apostle Paul's Biblical letters were written to a Greco-Roman that was about as perverted as our western world is today.
Will us Christians today step up to the plate like our predecessors did?
It was kind of funny because she warned the class in advance and she was obviously embarrassed that she just couldn't coordinate the reverse-direction that happens at the point in the middle. Looking back I wish I would have shown her a 'trick' in that instead of a point you make a loop and then just brush away the loop leaving the point. So, no reversal of movement.
To me, Trig, Calculus, Diff-Eq etc was like learning to speak a foreign language. Practice practice practice. Soon you become conversational then eventually fluent. Physics was my all time favorite class. Math in motion...
It has fomething to do with the teaching of “new math” which students are taught since the 1970a. For example, 23 + 14 is not taught as 37 by memorization first like in the past.
Today, it’s taught through “understanding” that 23 is actually 2 parts of tens and 3 single units. Similarly, 14 consist of 1 part of ten and 4 single units.
So, we need to see that 23+14 means 2 parts of ten plus 1 part of ten. Then 3 units plus 4 units of singles We then have 3 parts of ten (30) and 7 single units, which total 37. Bingo!
The whole concept is ridiculous...
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