Ok, we get it, union teachers. You suck at math, so you concocted a way to teach something you aren’t strong at. Nevermind, this entire system thinks you don’t know implicitly what 7 plus 7 is, but by gawd, you reliably know that 3 plus 4 equals 7! And that of course, you’re supposed to choose 3 plus 4 so you can add the 3 to the 7 to get 10!
In review, 7 plus 7 hard, but knowing 7 plus 3 is easy. Oh, and 3 plus 4 was easy too.
Common Core has been created primarily by two groups, really, really big business, like GE and Microsoft and the Association of Governors. It’s implementation is by the Dept of Education. It is designed solely to provide governors with a docile electorate that does what they are told and for big business, happy docile worker bees, aka serfs.
Big businesses like microsoft and GE will have company schools where their engineers and upper level management will send their kids, free of common core but instead teaching a classical education, but one free of Creation and The Creator. Thus giving big business a pool of company schooled engineers and management.
It is Common Core that has Maine’s secession movement going from super slow to emergency overdrive. Ten years from now there will be no way possible to enforce our Constitutional right to secede since the Common Core voters will out number us by 3 to 1.
Folks Common Core is a much bigger threat to the Republic than anything coming out of Washington in the past 150 years.
If you are a Christian give prayerful thought to moving your family to Maine and helping to create the Free and independent Christian nation of the Republic of Maine.
What the hell are “skip count” “number bonds” “making ten” “adding to the ones?”
Old math didn’t work.
That’s why Albert Einstein was never able to work out his theorums for light, time, space and energy.
That’s why men weren’t able to send other men to land on the moon and return to earth 45 yyears ago using just slide rules and their brains.
You can still see guys like this every day on the “Stupid White Guy” commercials on TV.
If only they had known the new “new math”.....
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I do that sort of thing when multiplying two or three digit numbers in my head but never for addition and asking a ten year old to do anything like that is insane.
For the students who have difficulty in math, it would be better to have them quickly count it out on their fingers....the original math manipulatives.
CC is kaka. One of the public schools in our area - with very strong students, academics (so the results will look stellar) - is ‘testing’ CC. The English homework for 5th graders is STUPID. The writing is banal, with informal language and grammar, and just stupid ‘plots.’
The math is what I call ‘oomy-goomy,’ with algebraic concepts introduced before kids are thinking conceptually to kids who have no clue what they are learning. I always suggest to my parents - ‘Make sure your kid knows math the way you were taught. The problem here is the books, which are written by Math Phd bachelors.’ This is math across the board, not just CC.
Are those number bonds covalent or ionic?