Goes back much further; back to when “new math” was rolled out in the early 70s.
I was taught to respect math mainly from my father, something that most kids in “high-poverty” areas don’t have.
A decade ago??? More like 40 years ago.
And the COVID lockdowns only made it worse. After the lockdowns, only 20% of children are proficient in math. But at least that's more than half.
Obama’s legacy.
I thought math was racist.
What is the problem?
Lol.
Just need the right test:
Name:__________________________ Gang:__________________________
1. Johnny has an AK-47 with an 80-round clip. If he misses 6 out of 10 shots and shoots 13 times at each drive-by shooting, how many drive-by shootings can he attempt before he has to reload?
2. Jose has 2 ounces of cocaine and he sells an 8-ball to Jackson for $320 and 2 grams to Billy for $85 per gram. What is the street value of the balance of the cocaine if he doesn’t cut it?
3. Rufus is pimping for three girls. If the price is $65 for each trick, how many tricks will each girl have to turn so Rufus can pay for his $800-per-day crack habit?
4. Jarone want to cut his 1/2 pound of heroin to make 20% more profit. How many ounces of cut will he need?
5. Willie gets $200 for stealing a BMW, $50 for a Chevy, and $100 for a 4X4. If he has stolen 2 BMWs, 3 4X4s, how many Chevies will he have to steal to make $800?
6. Raoul is in prison for 6 years for murder. He got $10,000 for the hit. If his common law wife is spending $100 per month, how much money will be left when he gets out of prison.
Common Core destroyed math.
Retired teacher here. I taught math, among other things.
I could mention the usual problems: lack of classroom discipline, social promotions, etc. And they’re all true.
Here’s one more: over-reliance on calculators.
Back when I first started teaching, students had the times tables memorized. And we taught things like estimating, adding fractions by hand, and use of logarithms.
That’s all gone now. In the district where I taught, central administrators actually forbade teachers from telling students to memorize the times tables. Everything HAD to be done by calculator.
So now we have young people who can’t immediately tell you what 8x9 is.
Crazy.
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Could be that 40% of the current student population simply do not have the neurological circuits to do math.
Union-controlled Urban Public Schools + migrants. Yes, results will continue to crash.
My kid’s private Christian school doesn’t participate in any state surveys
They’ve got several kids in each high school grade taking an advanced math course offered by the State University for gifted/ambitious high school kids in the County.
New math was being taught in the 60’s. My dad who almost did not graduate from high school saved me from new math. He grounded me in the digital system and basic arithmetic. He worked in a bank and brought home each year the test they gave to job interviewees, consisted of basic arithmetic including problems involving monetary problems. It does not take a college degree to teach grade school or high school.
Jaime Escalante was an educator who was born in Bolivia and came to the United States in the 1960s to seek a better life. He began teaching math to troubled students in a violent Los Angeles school and became famous for leading many of them to pass the advanced placement calculus test.
Most of today’s teachers only care that the students know the exact number of stripes on a pride flag.
The teachers associations are fully into indoctrination into leftist ignorance and NOT EDUCATION! ....imho
Covid had nothing to do with it.
Back 30 years ago, Intel identified a lack of math skills for their justification to begin H1b.
They simply couldn’t find qualified engineers.
Colleges continued to pump out useless grads.
And here we are 30 years later.
I remember my daughter was in 4th grade when they began teaching this new math. I met with the superintendent of instruction when my daughter failed the math test, her answers were correct, but she didn’t arrive at the answer correctly. I pulled out of traditional public school and moved her to a charter school and later we opted to homeschool our youngest daughter. 1+1=2, stick to math.
Back in the late 1990s, I was teaching electronics in a community college. They needed algebra, trig and a little calculus. NY high schools at the time changed the traditional ALG I &II, Geometry and Trig to Math course I,II,III & IV. They took topics from ALG I &II, Geometry and Trig to Math mixed them in a “bowl” and haphazardly put them into Math course I,II,III & IV. It confused the students. Eventually they went back to the traditional math courses.
They can’t even spell it. Cf. a thread a few threads above this one.