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 James Milgram, told listeners that if the controversial standards are not repealed, America’s place as a competitor in the technology industry will ultimately be severely undermined.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

[PGalt]

Thanks for the compilation of catchphrases of the collectivists, Maceman. Memes to deceive the unaware and champion/perpetuate the unaccountable government indoctrinator the bureaucrat that created him. History/education BUMP!

DISMANTLE the Dept. of Education. The states of the union can compete for our best and brightest.

[Lazamataz]

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 James Milgram, told listeners that if the controversial standards are not repealed, America’s place as a competitor in the technology industry will ultimately be severely undermined.

What Milgram warns is a 'bug', OTrauma views as a 'feature'.

[Adder]

traditional, drill and kill setting.

Not sure what the “kill” part of your statement is but the drill method raised many generations of /Americans and enabled us to produce the greatest generation and inventions that were undreamed of at the end of the 1800’s. It was with the advent of “new math” and ways to teach it that math became impossible to learn. Not everyone WANTS to know all of the intricacies of math processes.
Seems to me we don’t teach the basics then move on. We jump to teach theory and the poor kids don’t learn anything.

For the vast majority of kids we need them to know the basics such as the multiplication tables. We do not teach those much anymore because we want them to reason it out.
I disagree with that...we want them to be able to make change. To do at least rudimentary stuff because for many that is all they will ever do. Those who have the curiosity and the bent for it can do the reasoning it out stuff.
Math is never going to be enjoyable to many.

iMHO.

[wintertime]

what parents and citizens can do to try to stop them
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Caring parents will do what they have always done. They will take charge of their children's education. They will homeschool, afterschool, privately school, or hire tutors.

[FamiliarFace]

“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.”

This is the problem for American teachers, parents, and students in American public schools. It is also why homeschooling works well for so many.

Now if schools ever become places where discipline and hard work are rewarded again, maybe there will be a chance at success. As they are now, teachers have become babysitters for many of their students.

[wintertime]

Hm? ......Jo Boaler is an “educaaaaator” and Milgram is in the trenches doing real math.

You have one thing going for you that I can determine. At least you call yourself a teacher.

Teachers, by the way, have the lowest average SAT, ACT, and GRE scores on campus. If you are smart, then out there in “government school land” is a really dumb teacher that accounts for the average scores. Scary!

[wintertime]

Teachers work hard but where is the evidence that this work is effective?

NO STUDIES HAVE EVER BEEN DONE ( yes, I am shouting) to determine **where** a child actually learns. Is is home, school, or elsewhere?

NO STUDIES HAVE EVER BEEN DONE to determine **who** is doing the bulk of the teaching. Is it the parents who are afterschooling? Is it paid or unpaid tutoring, or is it merely the child reading the text and doing the problems.

We spent up to $30,000/child/per year on government schools whose effectiveness is COMPLETELY UNKNOWN!!!!

( Yep! I am shouting.)

It is my anecdotal observation that academically successful children who are institutionalized for their schooling have parents and children who are doing EVERYTHING I DID and MY CHILDREN DID as a homeschooling family! My conclusion: The real learning and schooling happens at HOME!

There is one big difference between academically successful homeschoolers and institutionalized children. The institutionalized child is frazzled and exhausted!

[matthew fuller]

For later.

[jpsb]

“i” denotes the imaginary number. Is is defined as a number which squared = -1. (i*i = -1).

[MrB]

One of the base beliefs of leftist ideology is the rejection of objective, fixed rules.

Being humanists, their belief system is based on the idea that humans define right and wrong, in the moral realm and the physical.

[jpsb]

your "1 = i * i" is incorrect by definition.

From Wiki
"An imaginary number is a number that can be written as a real number multiplied by the imaginary unit i, which is defined by its property i2 = -1. "

[tanknetter]

I’ve been saying for a while now that as much as we get up in arms about all the anti-American PC cr*p being taught on the reading side, the way to kill Common Core is by going after the math side.

I know a LOT of both apathetic moderates and vocal Liberals who are struggling with the CC math thats being inflicted in their kids. Leverage that to take out the whole ciriculla, then rebuild at the local and state levels.

[ExTexasRedhead]

My 12-year old grandson told his mother that Common Core is “garbage.”

[Tucker39]

“All part of the plan.”
Probably....but why would Bill Gates, for instance, throw so much effort and $$$ into the insidious destruction of our Country?

[Whenifhow]

They are trying to infiltrate math...

Are Proponents of Social Justice Math Trying to Change Your Childrens Schools
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/08/28/are-proponents-of-social-justice-math-trying-to-change-your-childrens-schools/
2:51 Minutes
Social Justice Math

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY849aMF8nI

Search on You tube for social justice math
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=social+justice+math

[Bigg Red]

I don’t believe that all of the people who are being used for the destruction of Western Civilization are evil. Some of them are just naive, and Gates is probably in that group.

[matthew fuller]

"as most things multiplied by themselves = 1"

Is this from Commie Core?

[kvanbrunt2]

no basic math i didn’t remember it fully so i looked it up. it is the Inverse property of multiplication or multiplicative identity not multiplied by itself but multiplied by it’s inverse. It’s been about 35 years since i did this stuff.

http://coolmath.com/prealgebra/06-properties/09-properties-multiplicative-inverse-01.htm

[dayglored]

> http://www.commoncoremovie.com For anyone who is undecided or who can’t quite articulate why Common Core is a bad idea.

THANK YOU SO MUCH for posting that link. I just spent the 40 minutes to watch it, and it was 100% worthwhile, and very reasonable and effective. I am forwarding that link to my friends who are teachers, and to my daughter who is in college now. Thank you again!