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College Students Learn Common Core Math (video)
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Posted on 03/21/2014 11:13:57 PM PDT by 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.
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To: Monitor
I go to the hardware store to buy something that is $12. I have a $10 and a $20 bill, so I give the person at the checkout counter $30. This person now has to make change.
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Why the hell would you give more than the $20?
Your explanation of CC math is severely flawed.
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posted on
03/22/2014 12:25:18 AM PDT
by
octex
To: sten
Its purpose is to do to math what Whole Language did to reading.
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posted on
03/22/2014 12:25:20 AM PDT
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
To: GeronL
This ain’t nothing compared to how they teach division?
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posted on
03/22/2014 12:26:28 AM PDT
by
Java4Jay
(The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.)
To: Java4Jay
They probably use multiplication to divide, first we turn all these numbers into fractions class and then...
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posted on
03/22/2014 12:27:51 AM PDT
by
GeronL
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To: Lmo56
"I dont get any of it ..."
I think they're trying to get the answer by adding up the difference between 12 and 32 in incremental steps. So the starting number is 12, and they add 3 to get 15. Then they add 5 to 15, to get 20. Then they add 10 to 20 to get 30. Then they add 2 to 30, to get 32, the ending number. Then they add all the individual results (3+5+10+2) to get 20. It seems very arbitrary.
To: Bizhvywt
I would give the teller a ten and watch them try to make change, lol.
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posted on
03/22/2014 12:28:26 AM PDT
by
jpsb
(Believe nothing until it has been officially denied)
To: Monitor
Anyone that does math like that should be flunked in the 1st grade!
I would also fire the checkout imbecile!
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posted on
03/22/2014 12:28:47 AM PDT
by
dalereed
To: chessplayer
I guess the Common Core folks never heard of the KISS principle...
Keep It Simple, Stupid!
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posted on
03/22/2014 12:29:06 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Steve_Seattle
It seems very arbitrary ... I get it now - teachers are so effin' lazy not to be teaching the concepts that are the foundation of mathematics. + - * /
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posted on
03/22/2014 12:33:34 AM PDT
by
Lmo56
(If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
To: GeronL
My daughter is now having to deal with this crap with my grandson. It seems almost demonic, as if it’s deliberately designed to confuse and frustrate children.
To: Monitor
Excuse me. If I’m working the counter and someone hands me a 10 and a 20 for a 12 purchase I grab the 20 and give them 8. I never touch the 10.
Your example does not work.
If the customer says he really wants to give me a 10 and a 20 for a 12 purchase because he is a common core lover, I point him to the sign that says we reserve the right to refuse service to idiots and kick them out of the store.
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posted on
03/22/2014 12:34:31 AM PDT
by
gunsequalfreedom
(Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
To: chessplayer
Is next class period's topic Ebonics ...
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posted on
03/22/2014 12:34:56 AM PDT
by
Lmo56
(If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
To: Steve_Seattle
Kids will get even dumber!
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posted on
03/22/2014 12:35:50 AM PDT
by
GeronL
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To: Steve_Seattle
Have you seen how they teach division?
It’s nuts!
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posted on
03/22/2014 12:36:20 AM PDT
by
Java4Jay
(The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.)
To: Java4Jay
I taught a teenager long division a few years ago. She showed me how she was taught to do division and I was dumb founded. I majored in math and I had not the slightest idea of how she was supposed to divide. It took me two hours of pounding into her head how to do long division. While I was teaching her I realized she could not do multiplication. If you can’t multiply division is really hard. And she was an honor student! Can’t do 6th grade math and you’re an honor student in 11th grade? WTF!
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posted on
03/22/2014 12:36:59 AM PDT
by
jpsb
(Believe nothing until it has been officially denied)
To: Monitor
To: jpsb
Ask an Honors Student to calculate a square root. When he/she pulls out their electronic calculator, take it away and tell them to do it by hand. Then, watch them sh*t their pants ...
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posted on
03/22/2014 12:41:09 AM PDT
by
Lmo56
(If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
To: Steve_Seattle
The good news for me is it don’t matter how they try and teach my grandson math. I couldn’t help teach him math past addition and subtraction. I fail when it gets to the level of fractions.
Your grandmother is good at math, ask her.
In fact, I think I’d just tell him to fail the class if he is having trouble with it and focus on a subject he likes.
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posted on
03/22/2014 12:44:29 AM PDT
by
gunsequalfreedom
(Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
To: Lmo56
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posted on
03/22/2014 12:44:39 AM PDT
by
jpsb
(Believe nothing until it has been officially denied)
To: jpsb
That is example of how dumbed down this country is
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posted on
03/22/2014 12:45:20 AM PDT
by
GeronL
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