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Controversy Rages as California Follows SF’s Lead With New Approach to Teaching Math
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Posted on 11/23/2021 6:57:09 PM PST by algore

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To: Skywise

The louis Vuitton purse you want is $2,300. With the CRT discount how much will it cost you? (Answer: nuttin)


21 posted on 11/23/2021 7:31:55 PM PST by D Rider ( )
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To: algore

READ LATER!


22 posted on 11/23/2021 7:37:48 PM PST by NetAddicted ( Just looking)
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To: GingisK

I think you forgot an important variable. How long does it take for one looter to loot a store?

Lets say... 15 minutes?.

So 15 times 200?

I was never good at math....


23 posted on 11/23/2021 7:46:04 PM PST by jmacusa (America.Founded by geniuses. Now governed by idiots. )
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To: algore
This particular update has attracted extra attention, and controversy, because of perceived changes it makes to how “gifted” students progress — and because it pushes Algebra 1 back to 9th grade, de-emphasizes calculus, and applies social justice principles to math lessons.

The Asians and Indians in California are going to hate this.
24 posted on 11/23/2021 7:51:15 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: smokingfrog

Why did the California Teachers Association give you a copy of a sample recommended test? Are you a teacher?🤣


25 posted on 11/23/2021 7:52:52 PM PST by willk
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To: algore

1+1 = whatever


26 posted on 11/23/2021 7:53:00 PM PST by Zathras
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To: smokingfrog

Excellent!


27 posted on 11/23/2021 7:55:15 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (When government fears the people, there is liberty.)
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To: algore

Nothing is sacred that has been introduced to mankind by the greatest minds of Western Civilization.


28 posted on 11/23/2021 8:00:42 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: algore; 6amgelsmama; 100American; AAABEST; aberaussie; AccountantMom; Aggie Mama; agrace; ...

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

This ping list is for the other articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. This can occasionally be a fairly high volume list. Articles pinged to the Another Reason to Homeschool List will be given the keyword of ARTH. (If I remember. If I forget, please feel free to add it yourself)

The main Homeschool Ping List handles the homeschool-specific articles. I hold both the Homeschool Ping List and the Another Reason to Homeschool Ping list. Please freepmail me to let me know if you would like to be added to or removed from either list, or both.

29 posted on 11/23/2021 8:38:12 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith)
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To: algore

More late-empire societal degradation stuff.


30 posted on 11/23/2021 8:48:19 PM PST by PGR88
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To: algore

The Left hates subjects like math, logic, and physics because these subjects are B.S. proof. These subjects don’t care about your age, race, or social background. These subjects only care about results and the Left hates that they can’t game it.


31 posted on 11/23/2021 8:56:42 PM PST by Flick Lives (The future is a quiet world)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

I have a BS in math as well. No degree.

Just BS.


32 posted on 11/23/2021 9:06:15 PM PST by Jonty30 (My superpower is setting people up for failure, wie thout meaning to. )
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To: algore
The only true part of the article is the following two sentences.

The way California public schools teach math isn’t working. On national standardized tests, California ranks in the bottom quartile among all states and U.S. territories for 8th grade math scores.

Cali has been teaching "fuzzy math" for a generation, and it has been holding kids, especially poor kids back. The :"New Approach" to teaching math might be called..."Fuzzier Math".

Home schooling and private schools are the only solution for concerned parents (short of moving to a better state).

33 posted on 11/23/2021 9:09:43 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston Churchill)
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To: PGR88

Weak men produce hard times....


34 posted on 11/23/2021 9:14:09 PM PST by 4Liberty (Let's go Brandon 👏 ...👏 ...👏👏👏 https://youtu.be/qr_F_XQrukM?t=1)
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To: smokingfrog

That be it ‘Frog! LOL!!!!!


35 posted on 11/23/2021 9:29:50 PM PST by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy Mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: rbg81

I can tell you one thing for sure; I WILL NEVER HIRE AN ENGINEER OR ARCHITECT LESS THAN 60 YEARS OLD!!!!


36 posted on 11/23/2021 9:36:09 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: algore
So Barbie is revising the Math curriculum for California.


37 posted on 11/23/2021 9:39:47 PM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: algore

I remember watching a bunch of crabs in a crab trap. One crab climbed up the wall of the trap to the hole, where he could escape.

The other crabs reached up and grabbed onto the escaping crab and pulled him down.

Then another crab would climb up. Sometimes the escapee would hang on so tightly that when they pulled him down, one of his claws would rip off and would be left clinging to the wire cage near the exit.

That’s equity. That’s the California education plan.


38 posted on 11/23/2021 10:40:31 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
The OP article had some simply stated counter points rebutting this social justice finagle to water down math education. My favorite counter point paraphrases to “the way to get social justice in mathematics is to teach mathematics”. Well duh! Well said IMHO.

It seems this proposed HS instruction framework is leaving out some math building blocks. As a math major, you can likely say this better than I or correct me if needed. Just as a sequence of math building blocks, it seems that this proposed framework is algebra followed directly by calculus. My HS and college paths were algebra, trigonometry, geometry and last calculus. I just can't see jumping directly from algebra to calculus. Rounding things out for my ChE field was an “engineering math” that was an advanced calculus focused on thermodynamics and kinetics - This one about blew me up.

39 posted on 11/23/2021 11:13:37 PM PST by Hootowl99
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To: algore
When I was younger calculators had just come out and cost several hundred dollars

I remember calculators locked up in glass cases at the store and my dad shopping for one. My parents explained they were something new and very expensive. Probably early '70s.

40 posted on 11/24/2021 12:48:06 AM PST by Tired of Taxes
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