Posted on 10/16/2015 4:11:00 AM PDT by Maceman
Common Core Math Explained in Three Minutes
NOTE: This is not a joke, not a satire.
This video has finally made me understand it! We are all just a bunch of haters who don’t like change and the reason the problems seem too complicated, is because we just don’t understand the reasoning behind the math! It’s just ‘new’ math! Oh, and the teachers are probably teaching it wrong which makes us more confused!
Drawing pictures to figure out a simple math problem is HELPING our kids, not making them functional retards!
As this might have been a wake-up, the "govmint" in full panic mode rushed into something call "The New Math."
The "New Math" - or the wonders of "Set Theory" as applied to arithmetic. No more rote "multiplication tables", making "change" was now a lost art, ... But no matter, as in twenty years these kids could understanding Church, Turing, ... that computability stuff.
Some were lucky enough to miss "The New Math"; sadly many did not, possibility being damaged for life. As that approach did so well, now we have a new and revised version ... and not just for Math.
It is called "Common Core" If at first you do not succeed, try, oh try, again and again and ...
The seed corn was eaten decades ago - ain't no helping us now!
Exactly.
I don’t understand the importance of set theory to making change at a Burger King cash register.
What am I missing?
Mark
I’ve seen something like this before and it reminded me of the time the local school district made us kids learn something called “modern math.” It was supposed to help us ultimately learn higher math such as algebra, trigonometry and calculus. Well, all it did was confuse me and many of my classmates. Even the teacher was confused. I felt sorry for him. He tried his best, but it was way over our heads.
Because proficiency in higher math was a requirement, I had to abandon my dreams of a college education, disappointing my parents who worked so hard so my brother and I could go to college. Essentially, modern math ruined my life. This common core **** will do the same for our kids.
Another Reason to Homeschool
The result is that kids develop their reason but have nothing to reason about except what they are told. It is much easier to teach them bogus facts and history and inculcate obedience to their rulers that way. Having no numbers and history or grammar in their databanks they cannot discriminate between facts and imposed fantasy. They are cut off from the past, from history , philosophy, and even religion and depend on outside sources for their figuring. They become submissive subjects of the ruling class who did NOT get "educated" that way. Or the brighter and more forward among them become restless with vague angst and unshakeable feelings that nothing is right. They become the rebels and bomb throwers but the attitude is inchoate and not directed against the Rulers because they have no idea why they think something is wrong. The rulers direct that restlessness against those who were not subject to their "education" and who are dangerous to the rulers.
And now we have a new office in the DoJ to deal with these perceived non fitters in.
Having been born in 1955, I definitely got some of the “New Math” but had plenty of old school teachers that insisted on multiplication tables and “drill and kill.” Set theory snuck in there some days but it was only a small taste due to the New Math texts. Making change happened as a life process in early jobs, not necessarily from school.
Unbelievable. Their explanation says you don’t want to learn the old-fashioned “borrowing” method. It’s too easy, I guess, and it fits every example. Yes, why use a tool which will solve any subtraction problem in seconds when you can use the common core method which will take minutes of doodling to solve the same problem.
The video also claims “borrowing” obscures what is going on with subtraction. To me it highlights the very concept of the powers of 10 embedded in numbers.
It's too ealry. I haven't finished my cup of coffee.
That is the best three sentence analysis of human learning I've read.
I managed to get halfway through the video before I saw what was happening: utter nonsense. You mentioned new math. I escaped that, being born 10 years earlier and starting off in a farmtown grade shcool, catholic thereafter.
The old ways are really fairly simple and learnable by children. They work, and quickly when practiced.
But it’s not about the math. It’s about making change, counting the pot in poker, understanding a sales forecast, and so on. Common Core is about the math. I was a math major, and did serious work on a Ph. D. (Then the draft got me, and I learned to spell “computer”.)
I love math. Most people don’t. I had the “carrying” and “borrowing” in addition and subtraction understood by 7th or 8th grade. That’s fun. It’s stupidly inefficient for normal life.
Several somebodies have way too much time on their hands. But please don’t explain Peano’s axioms to them, or it will just get worse.
Using their examples where they take several steps along a number line...then...they go back to the old ways by taking each segment (circled numbers) and add up the digits in the traditional method - Stupid is as stupid does.
My wife and I had all four reading before age 4 mostly just by reading to them a lot and following the words with our fingers. The youngest got the benefit of a book my wife discovered and used- Teach Your Child To Read in 100 Easy Lessons that is phenomenal.
Now my children all teach their own children the same things we used on them. One grandson, at 3 1/2 has gone outside of his parents' efforts and memorized most of the Orthodox Mass he hears at Church. None of my kids have or watch TV.
Addendum: "Educational TV" can be extremely harmful to developing minds. Sesame Street et al not only teach government propaganda but teach children to think like children, in ten second segments, and they grow up thinking like children. That is a major contributor to the widespread phenomenon of Americans who never grow up of whom you all have met many, I'm sure- ADD and inability to follow a chain of reason, no comprehension of cause and effect.
Long division, too.
Yes it is!
I may have missed it in the video, but what method do all the countries ahead of us use to teach their children math? Korean Common Core?
I bet we are the same age because I remember the exact say thing from my youth. I was lucky enough however to have a father that was very mathematically versed and he (when he wasn’t complaining about such insanity) would help me. And as you can imagine, when I would bring the assignments home graded with correct answers marked wrong because I didn’t get the answer the “correct” modern math way he would go into orbit! These education Ph.D.s need to be striped naked and flogged while watching the tally being kept with esoteric flow charts.
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