Common Core Blockbuster: Mathematician Dr. Jim Milgram Warns Common Core Will Destroy America's

breitbart ^ | 9/1/14 | Dr. Susan Berry

[Nachum]

During a Friday conference call sponsored by Texas-based Women on the Wall, Stanford mathematician and former member of the Common Core Validation Committee Dr. James Milgram, told listeners that if the controversial standards are not repealed, America’s place as a competitor in the technology industry will ultimately be severely undermined.

“In the future, if we want to work with the top level people, we’re going to have to go to China or Japan or Korea… and that’s the future we’re looking at,” Milgram said during the call that was part of a day-long Twitter campaign to target Indiana Gov. Mike Pence’s (R) decision merely to “rebrand” the Common Core standards in his state, even though he has a Republican supermajority in the legislature and an appointed state board of education.

Pence was in Dallas Friday for Americans for Prosperity’s Defending the American Dream summit, considered to be an essential stop for presidential hopefuls.

In less than 40 minutes, Milgram floored listeners with information about the Common Core standards, how they will affect the nation’s students and, ultimately, the country itself, and what parents and citizens can do to try to stop them. Listen to the podcast in full below:

[Nachum]

Common Core Blockbuster: Mathematician Dr. Jim Milgram Warns Common Core Will Destroy America's Standing in Technology

Common Clones

[Nachum]

The list, Ping

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[PGalt]

“All of this should really make you angry at the people who are responsible,”

DISMANTLE the Dept. of Education (Indoctrination) and many in this alphabet...

http://www.usa.gov/directory/federal/

BIG GOVERNMENT IS CRONY SOCIALISM

[Othniel]

There has been all manner of conflict between Milgram and another Stanford professor named Jo Boaler. Boaler's research into the teaching of math has shown that the more engagement is needed if kids are to learn the processes and calculations better than they do in a traditional, drill and kill setting. Her research, both in England and in the US, has gone on for years, and is available online and elsewhere. Boaler has worked with Stanford to offer free, online courses to teachers and parents to improve math fluency and knowledge. I've been teaching for 30 years, and I agree with Boaler's methods. That said, I think the math involved in Common Bore needs to be a lot less 'deconstructive' and more to the point of solving the problem by whatever means necessary.

Do a yahoo search for Boaler. To read about the war that has gone on between her and Milgram, go to this: http://web.stanford.edu/~joboaler/ and you can read about some of the unprofessional conduct Milgram has engaged in. Boaler advocates teaching math like the Japanese and other countries do: with a problem-base setting that allows the kids to explore and explain how and why they arrive at answers. It takes a lot of work on the part of the teacher to make it work, but it is worth it in the long run.

[dsrtsage]

The new math

1 = 1
1 = 1 * 1
1 = 1²
1=√(1²)
1 = √1 * √1

1 = (-1) * (-1)
1 = (-1)²
1 = √(-1)²
1 = √(-1) * √(-1)
1 = i * i
1 = i²
1 = -1

[kvanbrunt2]

left has a problem with math/science because it’s based on rules. don’t know the rules ya don’t do science. that is why there is no science today in any school.

[dayglored]

I think the error is in this step:

1 = (-1)²
1 = √(-1)²

While it is true that the square of 1 and the square of -1 are the same, that does not mean that 1 = -1

But your post is a neat challenge, and made me stop and think... thanks!

[kvanbrunt2]

curious why you posted this as most things multiplied by themselves = 1 as i recall the identity principle. but 1 doesn’t = -1

[Sun]

“..DISMANTLE the Dept. of Education (Indoctrination)..”

It would be so wonderful if that happened.

Kids would actually be able to learn things that would make their future better, rather than waste so much time on politically-correct nonsense.

[nathanbedford]

“Even Microsoft has moved its software development to Beijing,”....Production and manufacturing has also moved out of this country,” Milgram added. “The longer this continues, the more we’ll see our major industry move over to other countries and the jobs they generate will go with them.”

Let us assume that you are conscientious enough to homeschool your kids or lucky enough to have them educated in an upscale suburban public school which does properly train them in mathematics and the hard sciences and even enables them to matriculate in an elite university where they not only get their ticket punched but actually learn what is necessary to compete in the modern, global economy.

Their problem is not their own qualifications but the absence of infrastructure. Those jobs will not be here but in Asia while we become a plantation for the intellectual elite of the East. Infrastructure does not just mean bridges and tunnels, it means a culture, a pool of able and educated workers and we are, in the quaint phrase of a generation ago, eating our substance. We are cannibalizing our infrastructure for political correctness and the devil take tomorrow.

[PA Engineer]

While it is true that the square of 1 and the square of -1 are the same, that does not mean that 1 = -1

Absolutely. ;-)

[dsrtsage]

“curious why you posted this as most things multiplied by themselves = 1 as i recall the identity principle. but 1 doesn’t = -1”

Point is... lamenting the fact that though probably >80% of people will not get precisely where that statement fails, 100% of common core people will never get it. It is a “nerdy” math joke that I remember from high school in 1985.

Since I have had one or two, here is a good math problem that actually has an answer...An inchworm is on an infinitely elastic rubber band which is 8 inches in length. Every minute the inchworm crawls along the rubber band exactly one inch. At the end of each minute, the rubber band stretches instantaneously 8 inches. How long (if ever) will it take the inch worm to reach the end of the rubber band, and how long will the rubber band be?

[Trailerpark Badass]

Also because women and some minorities do less well in math naturally, and are at a disadvantage in science & tech fields. These fields of study cannot be easily graded subjectively, in order to balance the demographics of success, without totally changing their pedagogy.

They've already done that in the humanities through critical theory/Marxism, where rules of spelling and grammar have been replaced by quality of "self-expression." And even that is not what one would benignly assume.

[Othniel]

The left tries to take the right answer out in favor of a junk explanation that has no bearing on reality. That's my main beef with CC. I agree with Boaler that changes need to be made in math instruction, but I don't see CC as being the way to do it. I'd love to see the Dept. of Ed. dismantled, and control returning to the states and locals. That's the only way to go.

[sphinx]

Math doesn’t lend itself to subjective grading and therefore resists efforts to engineer pc results.

[BobL]

Hard to believe that there are STILL some FReepers that send their kids to public schools - even after all this on Common Core.

Could it be that their little public school is immune from the disaster that affects the other 99% of the public schools...or is it that keeping junior out of public school is expensive, and may keep you from getting that boat (or truck) that you really, really, deserve?

[SoFloFreeper]

http://www.commoncoremovie.com

For anyone who is undecided or who can’t quite articulate why Common Core is a bad idea.

[rockinqsranch]

bflr

[Bigg Red]

...if the controversial standards are not repealed, America’s place as a competitor in the technology industry will ultimately be severely undermined.

***
All part of the plan.

[Maceman]

DISMANTLE the Dept. of Education

In 2010, Barack Obama called for fixing the public education system by giving us the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and “Race to the Top,”

which he said would fix the education system already fixed by the 2001 GW Bush and Ted Kennedy legislation called “No Child Left Behind,”

which was supposed to fix a system supposedly already fixed by a 1994 piece of federal legislation called “Goals 2000,”

which was supposed to fix a system already fixed by “America 2000,”

which was a 1991 response during the Bush administration to a 1983 federal report on education called “A Nation at Risk,

which was published a full four years after Jimmy Carter first fixed the nation’s public school system by establishing a cabinet-level Department of Education in 1979.