Teaching Math In 1950
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production
is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit?
Teaching Math In 1960
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production
is 4/5 of the price, or $80. What is his profit?
Teaching Math In 1970
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production
is $80. Did he make a profit?
Teaching Math In 1980
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production
is $80 and his profit is $20. Your assignment: Underline the number 20.
Teaching Math In 1990
A logger cuts down a beautiful forest because he is selfish and inconsiderate and cares nothing for the habitat of animals or the preservation of our woodlands. He does this so he can make a profit of $20. What do you think of this way of making a living? Topic for class participation after answering the question: How did the birds and squirrels feel as the logger cut down their homes? (There are no wrong answers.)
Teaching Math In 2005
Un hachero vende una carretada de madera para $100. El costo de la
producción-——
Did this requirement come along after I went through school? I didn’t take algebra until I was a freshman in high school.
What a dilemma for the left.
Comrades, kids don’t need education to work on a state collective farm.
Algebra teaches logical reasoning which is why they want to drop it.
Socialism requires emotion, not logic.
..when Common Core is fully implemented, I don’t see how God-fearing, conservative teachers can continue on—my wife and I will have a big decision to make...
Califonia Public Education = “Winning”!
That’s because algebra is an element of the oppressive paradigm foisted upon the heritages of color. It started out pure when the Muslims invented it. But like everything else in the United States, algebra is just holding back the people.
I graduated from a Catholic college prep HS in NYC in 1978 - algebra was always 9th grade math and not just in catholic schools.
My daughter, OTOH, took algebra last year while still in 8th grade, but only because she is in an accelerated class. In our district algebra is 9th grade math. The majority of other students in her geometry class this year are 10th graders.
Gives up? Does that mean the kids weren’t getting it? How about ‘home-schooled’ kids? Bet they get it — in spades!
Can anyone imagine anything more stupid than such a project? The insanity of the present climate in American Education closely parallels the ideological idiocy, which at the same time embraces "diversity" as a goal, while promoting every idiotic egalitarian program under the sun, to undermine the vast actual diversity of human types!
Our States were created by settlers with different motives, different values & different aptitudes. The Federal Constitution, wisely, left all questions of Health, Safety & Morals (the Police Powers) to the States. The Founders understood that one size did not fit all. But now the "Mipips"--as I call them (Marxist Influenced Pseudo-Intellectual Poseurs--are intent on forcing everyone into the same mold.
Yet nothing is more certain than that Collectivist/Egalitarianism Sabotages Human Potential.
As long as this idiocy goes largely unchallenged in American public debate, our situation will continue to deteriorate. Our hopes for the future are ever more dependent upon the integrity of someone like Hans Christian Andersen's little boy, who is not afraid to announce that the Emperor is naked.
Enough is enough.
William Flax
4/3s of all people don’t understand fractions...
“our Diversity Is Our Strength!”
As long as they can use an EBT card and vote Democratic, its all good.
It’s a waste of funding anyway. Obviously, California’s leaders didn’t learn much from math classes.
The average IQ in a lot of CA public schools is 85.
Forcing students with IQs of 85 - or below - to take Algebra is cruel.
It makes boys angry and girls depressed. The boys get violent, the girls get pregnant.
You cannot send a third-world population to a first-world school.
The whole idea of it is ridiculous