It's a form of stupidity redistribution.
Making the stupid feel smart
Is your child dumber because of public schooling? That’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
I think the Common Core math junk is an attempt to teach kids ways to “cheat” the system and simplify the question to attain the answer. This sort of math trick comes naturally to one after years of adding and subtracting, one does not need to be taught how to do this - it just becomes a natural way of doing it. Supporters of CC will say “little kids can’t wrap their minds around 9+6 or 3x4 because these are challenging numbers.” However, if kids just learn addition, subtraction, multipication and division by simple memorization, they will come to these shortcuts by themselves. Thus, having the facts at hand and a true understanding of the mathematics behind it. Teaching the shortcuts too early will just confuse them and they end up with nothing....
Common Core is child abuse.
I’m afraid I don’t understand the recent focus on Common Core as being responsible for this kind of crap.
Much the same thing was going on in the 60s when I was in grade school. Except then we called it New Math.
Here’s a primer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIKGV2cTgqA
OMG! I guess the liberals figured that America has been a leader in innovation for way too long, so we need to dumb down our kids as much as possible so that the rest of the world will shine.
Any parents out there. If your kids run into this and other insanity, get flash cards and teach them the basic facts yourself. For some of the later messed up topics, get some traditional math text books and make sure the kids get their math skills and vocabulary mastered.
And how do they know 6 = 5 + 1????
The majority of teachers are stupid.
Saw a teacher on “Who Wants To Be a Millionaire” who didn’t know the answer to “What element is the most in the air we breathe?” with Oxygen, Nitrogen, Hydrogen and something else as choices.
The teacher didn’t know so he “phoned a friend”, another teacher at his school that was the actual “science” teacher. He said oxygen. Regis did one of his help questions by asking “Are you SURE?” with the inflection on ‘sure’. He said “yes.”
We all know the correct answer is nitrogen. I looked at my wife and said “if we had kids and this was their school I’d pull them out.”
You need this many fingers and toes.
Problem solved...
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You have to see this video. Too funny.
I would like to have read the story , but it was on THE BLAZE
that web site is junk. My ghostery goes nuts.
What I'm trying to say is mathematics — the foundation of logic and science — is highly intuitive. As such, it just seems to naturally, innately correspond to the way human minds actually work, analyze data, and process information.
Why complicate things for these young-'uns? What they need to succeed in life is a greater sense of realism — which mathematics seems to comprehend in its representation of reality. (I'm speaking here of the core mathematical disciplines, Number Theory and Geometry. I am not speaking of the "instrumental maths," notably Statistics.)
The last thing young people need is to be trained to prefer the false promises of abstract thinking. What they need is training and skill in systematic, analytical thinking.
Otherwise, what happens is they just float off into some God-forsaken Second Reality.
FWIW
No this is a valid mathematical technique. It appears silly in this example because the teacher is using single digit numbers. And yes the student should have been taught from rote memory that 9+6 = 15.
But what about 9886 + 318?
You can solve this using the long hand method, or you can solve it faster by recognizing that you need 114 to get to 10,000. And 318 = 114 + 204. So 9886 + 318 = 9886 + 114 + 204 = 10,000 + 204 = 10204. And you can do that in your head faster than long hand.
It’s an important skill for business. I use it all the time. It shouldn’t instead of long hand arithmetic but in addition to long hand.
This is not a reason to oppose common core unless long hand addition is not being taught. There are valid reasons to oppose common core, including opposing federal control of education, and the introduction of alternative agendas such as gay rights that have nothing to do with reading and writing.
The teacher’s salary, we know, is made up of a lot of parts. Some of those parts are anchored to state and federal income and social security taxes, other parts are anchored to teacher’s union dues. What is left is called the teacher’s net income. Now let’s take this “net income” and introduce it to our friend the number 10. Hey friend, how many times can you “go into” our friend net income? Let’s take that number and call it our new friend, “new take home pay.”
Because that’s how much you’re worth teaching this garbage.
Imagine trying this “math” at the grocery store or bank or while building a house or putting together a satellite....
lolz
I have a foolproof way of making it faster without memorization. I just have to take off a shoe.
My dad was telling me about SMSG math from the 60’s that kids then had to endure.