College Students Learn Common Core Math (video)

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[chessplayer]

College students and others at George Mason University were dumbstruck by the tedious nature of an elementary level Common Core problem during a short series of interviews conducted by Campus Reform last week. The problem, 32-12, was demonstrated to those on campus the traditional way and juxtaposed with the Common Core method.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “When you concentrate on conceptual mathematics to children who don’t reflexively know the basics, you are wasting your time, just as you have wasted your time with a contrived example.” <<

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But in the former, someone got paid far more than they were worth, to fail dismally.

“Union Yes!”
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[GailA]

Did you think it funny?

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PLEASE NOTE THE PALM GREASING IN THE FIRST LINK! THAT IS THE REAL PROBLEM, NOT Retiree’s health care.
ALL RETIRED MILITARY! All I see is a nightmare. ES cannot be trusted to get the RIGHT manufacture, and not all generics are equal to name brand.

As a very drug sensitive person, I WANT A WAIVER! And should be able to get one. Or get samples to try first I am extremely drug sensitive!

I did not include the cover letter.

This is couched in such language that it is hard to under stand. This is a Prelim letter, we don’t even know at this time which drugs are going to be on the list. Waste of money to not send out the full thing.

These are the option we are going to be given in a “new” SCREW U Pilot program from Tricare.

1 Transfer your medication from a retail pharmacy to save , convenient Tricare Home Delivery and pay less out of pocket! A typical cost for a 90 day retail supply is $51 but only $13 for Home Delivery.

2 Ask your doctor about using a low cost generic that is not among the medications included in the Pilot Generics can still be filled at retail for $5

3 Transfer maintenance medications under the Pilot from retail pharmacy to a military pharmacy. Call your local military pharmacy to see if they have you medication
4 Continue to get you selected maintenance medications at a retail and pay 100% of the cost of the medication starting with your third refill.

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If you have other health insurance with a prescription benefit, you do not fall under the Pilot. There will also be a process to obtain waivers on a case by case basis, due to personal need or hardship, emergency or other special circumstaces-0 such as living in a nursing home. After participating in the Pilot for 1 year you may opt out.

Military Waste and Fraud Continue In the Middle of the Government Shutdown HERE IS YOUR PROBLEM : PALM GREASING

Washington’s Blog
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/10/wasted-military.html

http://www.reuters.com/investigates/pentagon/#article/part1

Mugging the Military
http://www.ijreview.com/2012/06/9466-mugging-soldiers/

Mugging our Troops
http://www.reuters.com/investigates/pentagon/#article/part1

0bama to Force Military Families Away From Tricare ...By Tripling Their Fees. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.”
CBO: The military is getting squeezed for domestic spending cash
http://www.humanevents.com/2014/02/26/cbo-the-military-is-getting-squeezed-for-domestic-spending-cash/

Pentagon Outlines Increased Tricare Fee Proposal
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2014/03/05/pentagon-outlines-increased-tricare-fee-proposal.html?comp=7000023317828&rank=1

[gunsequalfreedom]

Basic math is easy to teach, its all about how you approach it.

If you have me as a math student you would modify that position. Can we modify your position to say there is an exception to every rule?

[gunsequalfreedom]

fractions are easy if you are adding or subtracting just find the common denominator. A fail safe method is to multiply the bottom of the faction to get a denominator and then cross multiply from bottom to top. Example 1/2 + 2/3 multiply bottom 2 x 3 = 6 so 6 is the denominator now cross multiply bottom to top 2 x 2 = 4 so we have 4/6 3 x 1 = 3 so we have 3/6 now add 4 + 3 = 7 so our answer to 1/2 + 2/3 is 7/6 easy.

Easy? Sorry, you lost me right after "multiply the bottom of the faction to get a denominator and then cross multiply from bottom to top."

[Principled]

How about this... when you multiply frax, multiply across - top by top and bottom by bottom.

AND

when you divide frax, you can divide across - top by top and bottom by bottom.

most people memorize a division algorithm keep/change/flip... which is the rote method.

[Principled]

The statement you lifted was only part of my statement.

Learning at such a high level is great for kids who are really bright and motivated - but as aptitude and motivation reduces so must the methods for helping kids learn... simply a sliding scale. The brighter and more motivated a kid is, the more advanced/conceptual he can absorb and the less drill/rote he needs. The less capable and less motivated [most of what kids are today], the less advanced/conceptual he can absorb and the more drill/rote memory he needs.

I stand by my full statement.

Really bright kids have the same issues that poorly motivated or less gifted children have with this approach to mathematics.

That statement is true - but neglects that the brighter need less drill practice. Hence my "sliding scale" post.

[MHGinTN]

Um, is this no longer a thread about math education? I was responding to post #137 on this thread about math education. Don’t lose your sense of humor, Gail. The bastards will plow you under if you lose perspective.

[jpsb]

I am pretty good at math and I remember doing nothing but drills in math while in grades 1-3. Grade 1 we learned to count, grade 2 flash cards in addition and subtraction. everyday flash cards. Grade 3 flash cards in multiplication (1-12). By the time I hit 4th grade I had addition, subtraction and multiplication nailed. In the forth grade we move on to adding/subtracting columns and multiplying larger numbers.

You are absolutely, correct pound in the basics at a young age. I feel sorry for kids that hit grade school after 1980 or so. They are not being educated in a proper fashion.

[petro45acp]

Ding ding ding.

Create a Dependant class of gimmie idiots......

KYPD

[BRK]

And if I want to multiply 96 x 104, I square 100 and subtract 4-squared.

This is exactly the kind of method I see common core trying to use to teach a 3rd grader about multiplication. Of course they'll use up a full page of numbers, arcs, and lines to do it. But how useful is it to those who don't pick up on it right way when column based multiplication works perfect every time.

By the way, your trick works because (x+n)(x-n)=x^2-n^2 neato!

[BRK]

Your mistake is in believing that you have a "natural" understanding of math.

Can't speak for Monitor, but I did not actually say that I had a natural understanding of Math. I only claimed that about arithmetic and numbers. Start throwing the Greek alphabet in there and I fall back a bit in the pack of my peer group of graduate engineers. That stuff was only "easy" for a very gifted few.