Posted on 11/03/2015 4:20:50 AM PST by don-o
Any adult who has tried to help a second-grader with homework has noticed math is not what it used to be. Now schools are unlocking the secrets of Common Core math for mystified parents.
They're holding special classes or giving out materials designed for adults so they can help children with their math homework.
I taught my grandchildren the normal way. Why waste time with all the cr**. And I taught them the times tables.
My granddaughter is going for her PHD in bio chemistry. My grandson...aeronautical design engineer.
Can't you see the coup ?
We already GOT your kids ... now we'll get YOU TOO !
Y'all had BETTER get to those school board meetings
Re-educating the educated with a bunch of useless BS.
Things like this will motivate more and more parents to home school.
The objective is to dumb down our kids and undermine American “privilege”.
Another nail in Obama’s destruction of America.
Pedro charges $20 for each lawn he cuts, and he gives 40% of his earnings to his assistant Diego. On average, Pedro and Diego cut 15 lawns per day.
QUESTION: How long did it take Pedro to swim to Miami?
I wonder who paid for all of the attendees to fly to Dubai, their hotels, etc.
Saudi money?
These brain-dead liberals and their affirmative-action hired cohorts can’t even reason to see that there is a problem with having a conference in a place built with petro-dollars by actual slave labor!
Mrs. AV
I think I’ll continue to do math using methods that actually work.
QUESTION: How long did it take Pedro to swim to Miami?
ANSWER: Lemon, you racist!
My nephew and brother were living with me when he was in (I think) 9th grade. I’ve always like Math (until Calc - that’s not math, just sayin’) and was helping him with some early Algebra. This had to be on the front of of Commie Core, but the way they were teaching it was just ridiculous. And of course they wanted the work shown in this new, stupid way. We struggled through it and then I showed him the old school way of doing it. Of course that made more sense, but it burned him out on Math.
LOL!
My Missus remarked to me that she possibly had seen a reference to what you are getting at. That being, if parents are incapable of helping their children, the the playing field is leveled; the assumption being that white parents are more involved than black parents.
I do not accept that as a "given". But, even asking the question is pretty much verboten.
Mrs D also has some memory of a CC champion saying that the parental exclusion was a feature, not a bug. Does anyone have documentation on this?
I actually use the common core methods for doing math. I always have, for as long as I can remember.
I have a math related degree and work in a field where I use math constantly. So its actually a good method.
Periodically on the news, they feature some guy who can multiply very large numbers in his head easily. People are mystified about how he remembers all those numbers while he is doing the problem in his head...but he isn’t using traditional methods. Instead he is splitting the problem into two problems, one with very large but round numbers and the other with a manageable set of small numbers...and adding the results together. That is what I do in my head...a very junior level of what these guys do. And that is what common core teaches.
Be here’s the thing - while I find it easier in the end, it requires a comfort with numbers that I found few of my teachers had, and even fewer of my classmates. While I have always preferred this method, I have never thought it would be a good ‘mainstream’ method. My opinion has been validated as I experienced teaching math to my own kids. Most kids interpret the method as ‘great, I get to round and I don’t have to give an exact answer’, because they tend to spend months on trying to get kids comfortable with the estimation/number lopping stage - and they fixate on that, thinking there are no more steps. And not just the kids. Most k-12 teachers are frankly not qualified to work with numbers this way, and don’t understand it enough to graduate beyond the estimating either.
An analogy I would make would be trying to teach technical writing skills to a 2nd grader, instead of just plain old syntax.
Its hard to explain, but I don’t disagree with the methodology. I just think its ridiculous to try to teach it.
For most applications, the ability to quickly reach a good approximation is more important than laboriously calculating an exact result. If precision is necessary, start with the approximation and then calculate the difference.
Right. So let’s hear teachers complain about no help or support from the students’ home.....then completely shut out ANY help from home.......morons.
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