A second-grade math work sheet. Credit Edmund D. Fountain for The New York Times
A second-grade math work sheet. Credit Edmund D. Fountain for The New York Times
There is nothing wrong with the three questions I can see on that worksheet. And FYI I wasn’t taught multiplication or division until the third grade.
The article links to a “study” on how kids learn math. Here are the authors:
JOHN D. BRANSFORD (Chair), College of Education, University of Washington
SUSAN CAREY, Department of Psychology, Harvard University
KIERAN EGAN, Department of Education, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
SUZANNE WILSON, School of Education, Michigan State University
SAMUEL S. WINEBURG, Department of Education, Stanford University
Sure would be nice if they could squeeze someone with a MATH BACKGROUND into designing how kids should learn math.
One goal of Common Core is to allow success for students who CANNOT memorize math facts. They cannot memorize, but they can count.
The questions in that pic are easy, its the idiocy of the method that is screwy.
These techniques look like novel ways to add to traditional teaching to spice things up. But, since this is Government, everything is applied to everybody, too little time is allowed for transition, and no one is allowed to dissent.
We don’t need the Government mandating anything with our children. They need to defend us from enemies and leave everything else alone.
God has already blessed their four children, now I am sure He will bless the parents for the love and care they are showing God's gifts to them.
ON June 12, 2018 legal registered voters in Maine will cast one ballot each, on that ballot will be a question on whether to secede from the union or not, it will also reference the Constitution that will go into effect immediately upon a successful secession vote.
This is the education section from that Constitution:
Section 7a. Education. All education is left to the local community, to the parents first and foremost and then to the city, town or community in which the family resides. The counties and the Republic are explicitly denied any role in a child's education with the exception of Militia members while on duty and prisoners while in the care of the county jail or prison of the Republic. The first and foremost responsibility to teach a child Religion, obedience, patriotism, loyalty, righteousness, and to be a productive member of society rest squarely upon the shoulders of the parent(s), the local communities role is to support and reinforce that parental responsibility.
I looked carefully at the Algebra 1 Common Core Math Test given in New York State and here’s what I found:
1) If you know traditional math, you will get 70% correct, probably enough to pass. Some of the problems, maybe 30%, are right out of traditional math books (i.e., the ones that aren’t published anymore in the US...but that’s another story), and the other 40% of this group are still traditional, but with some kind of a twist.
2) If you know the new-age nomenclature, like Cumulative, Associative, etc. properties, Range and Domain, etc. you can get another 15% correct.
3) You do have to know Common Core (i.e., total BS crap) for the final 15%, but it is doable.
4) Graphing calculators are REQUIRED for that examine, but EVERY PROBLEM can be done without one in a reasonable amount of time if you know traditional math. Think about it.
The bottom-line is that kids will do well even if just taught traditional math, with a small level of learning the new-age and Common Core stuff. They key is knowing the traditional math.
But here’s the problem, the VAST MAJORITY of parents EXPECT their kids to learn what is necessary in their schools - and for those parents, they will be VERY DISAPPOINTED as the whole point of Common Core is to somehow magically teach math without teaching any traditional skills.
...and the above applies to most FReeper Parents - you know who you are, and admit it, it’s much easier to just dump-off your kids in school, than to take on those schools by teaching your kids first, so your kids know the stuff before being “diagnosed” with a “learning disorder”.
Imagine, if you will, a restaurant that most children had to go to for the majority of their meals...Now imagine that it was run by the government.
Kids gonna' love the food?
Their should be thousands of different schools across the nation just as there are restaurants.
Education is far too important to be left to government for obvious reasons.
1. 25X10 Don’t they teach the kids that when you multiply by 10 just add a zero to the back end of the number ???
Thus 25 becomes 250 and youre finished ...
2. 6X4 or 6X? While people are suggesting that not all the cars might be a four wheeler has anyone considered that many of those cars will also have a spare wheel ???
3. 30X2 or 30X? My first thought also. What if Johnny looks around at his friend Gus who lost a leg during that last suicide bombing at the local mall by (the people who must not be mentioned) and wonders if he should count Gus’ missing leg or not ??? Should he ask the teacher to clarify ??? Or would that be racist ???
3. sorry that should have been 30/2 or 30/? or something I don’t have a division symbol key..
There are 44 ways to add two numbers together and all of them are correct. There are 38 ways to subtract, and again all of them obtain the same answer.
Some of the methods are easy and obvious, and others are not so intuitive, but do get the job done.
I don’t know much about common core, but from others I’ve talked to, it seems they have picked the most ambiguous methods for our children to learn.
It’s another way to separate kids from their parents and make them dependent on their government school teachers. Mom and Dad can’t help them. Makes parents look stupid.
which students are asked to critique a phantom child’s thinking
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My bet:
1) Most of the phantom children who are wrong have “white” names.
2) The phantom children who are right have Black or Hispanic names.
Just my guess. Hopefully, someone with the means and skill will check into it.
the exercise does assume all the people and all the
vehicles have the normal complement
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