Posted on 10/07/2023 3:40:59 AM PDT by george76
Take away the calculators. They are programmed from a very young age to reach for the device reflexively. Later in life it’s the phone, cash register, whatever.
Take away the publik skrewls.
Kids aren’t students.
They’re just the grist for Deep State’s diploma mills.
Learning creative math never leads you to the right solution.
My feeble mind this am says 5/6 but not sure with the new math if that is right.
Living alone has benefits.
Yeah. “Lowest common denominator “comes to mind a lot, these days.
That’s what the solution sounds like to me.
LOL!
ALL MINE!!!
Yeah, I got 5/6, too.
Could be the feminization of society in general or possibly a bit of people who shouldn’t be in college are in college. The STEM types were visible in highschool and even elementary and they didn’t struggle with things that attracted them.
These kids have no clue.
I cook. I sew. I do some home repair. I budget. I shop.
I use all kinds of math, though not calculus (thank God), on a daily basis.
Oh you got it right but with the way they teach it now you would need two pages of work to solve it.
its not 1/3 + 1/2 = 2/5.. new math and all. /s added because sociopaths dont recognize sarcasm.
I bet they can quickly spout out a list of 50+ “genders” though.
STEM these days is not what it used to be. It is kind of like pretending that playing with Legos will make you an engineer.
One of my kids is an astronautical engineer. We homeschooled him so when he was a senior in high school he took a few community college classes to get acclimated to institutional education.
He bombed the math entrance exam. He’d kind of forgotten the basic math because he’d been doing advanced math.
A friend has a masters in some sort of very obscure mathematics. When she began homeschooling her kids she realized she couldn’t do math with numbers. All her knowledge was formulas and symbols.
That works for multiplication
Math is one of those subjects that takes a varied amount of time depending on the student. Students need to learn at their own pace.
When slower students are pushed too fast, they give up. And when faster students have to slow down for the entire class, they get bored and stop learning.
Khan Academy lets students learn at their own pace.
As an aside, just because a student is slower doesn't mean that he or she is less mathematically inclined. Some students look at the deeper meaning of each topic covered and that makes them slower. Other students are only faster because they merely memorize what they are taught without understanding the "why" of an operation.
If figure it this way (if my memory from middle school serves me well):
1/3 equals 2/6
1/2 equals 3/6
2/6 plus 3/6
equals 5/6
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