[aquila48]

Couldn’t agree more. I have two engineering degrees and when I was helping my granddaughter I couldn’t figure out what they were asking.

The language is Orwellian.

[BobL]

“Couldn’t agree more. I have two engineering degrees and when I was helping my granddaughter I couldn’t figure out what they were asking...The language is Orwellian.”

But they’re they ‘experts’, so who are we to ‘second guess’?

Thankfully, in my case, I was exposed to Thomas Sowell during college, so I knew EXACTLY what Big Education had in store for my kids, before I was even married.

Obviously, they were NEVER exposed to any of this crap, and obviously they’re doing great ‘competing’ against the kids who were forced through this nightmare.

[bboop]

It is Orwellian, exactly. The parents near where I tutor are LIVID, marched on the school and demanded better math. I believe a lot of the math teachers now ‘use’ the texts (ie, ‘do NOT use’) and ‘supplement’ with their own worksheets.

[Mrs. Don-o]

The purpose of Common Core Math is to level the playing field so that nobody can be helped in any way by Parental Privilege. This way, the children of highly involved and competent parents will have no advantage over the the children of uninvolved, uneducated, or unintelligent parents.

This eliminates all inherited sociological advantage and makes the kids equal at the bottom stratum.

It starts all the kids in the State of California at the level of a poorly nurtured child of uneducated parents in Bakersfield, and makes sure that none of them can pull ahead of their peers.

Don't you get it? This is Social Justice.

[\/\/ayne]

My Dad was studying engineering at USC when I asked him to help me with my "New Math" homework in 1967. He was so happy to help at first but then a half hour later after some cursing told me to tell my teacher "This isn't math." He slammed down the books and left. I don't remember what I told the teacher.

Recently I talked to an engineer who tutors math on the side as part of a STEM program. I told my story and asked what he thought of this more recent "New Math" of Common Core. He said this is also not math. I asked "what do you teach them, then? He replied "Math."