listen stooopid... the HOW IS WRONG TOO!!!
Posted on 08/19/2013 3:17:03 AM PDT by TexGrill
Quick: what’s 3 x 4?
If you said 11 — or, hell, if you said 7, pi, or infinity squared — that’s just fine under the Common Core, the new national curriculum that the Obama administration will impose on American public school students this fall.
In a pretty amazing YouTube video, Amanda August, a curriculum coordinator in a suburb of Chicago called Grayslake, explains that getting the right answer in math just doesn’t matter as long as kids can explain the necessarily faulty reasoning they used to get to that wrong answer.
“Even if they said, ’3 x 4 was 11,’ if they were able to explain their reasoning and explain how they came up with their answer really in, umm, words and oral explanation, and they showed it in the picture but they just got the final number wrong, we’re really more focused on the how,” August says in the video.
When someone in the audience (presumably a parent, but it’s not certain) asks if teachers will be, you know, correcting students who don’t know rudimentary arithmetic instantly, August makes another meandering, longwinded statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
First of all, why does this approach to teaching arithmetic and mathematics make sense to any experienced educator? Secondly, what have they got against arithmetic and mathematics?
Now I know where the 7·4 percent unemployment rate comes from
listen stooopid... the HOW IS WRONG TOO!!!
Well, her tan shoes didn’t match her black and white dress. Wonder if she can explain the how and why of that?
In other words “ Let’s dummy down to the lowest common denominator “ . Stupid is as stupid does ,,, explain that to me teacher . Liberals should try sleeping at night and not sitting up thinking of new ways to explain how they got the wrong answer . With all of 0bama’s failures ,, where’s his explanation on how he got us here ??? He makes Geo. Bush look like a rocket scientist .
rotten to the core math
III x IV = XI
IV IV IV
III I II
III I II
III I II
III I II
___________
12 4 8 =24
12 +8 = 20
(a)18/20 = .900
.900 X 12 = ~11 (10.8)
rotten to the core math
III x IV = XI
IV IV IV
III I II
III I II
III I II
III I II
___________
12 4 8 =24
12 +8 = 20
(a)18/20 = .900
.900 X 12 = ~11 (10.8)
Maybe we can pay these “teachers” and everyone in the school system 1/10th their paycheck and simply say, “Well, that’s what you taught us, that the correct answer isn’t important. We simply paid you what we thought the answer should be.”
As an elementary teacher, I can’t tell you how many of these “teacher indoctrination” sessions I suffered through concerning Common Core. Here is a true story:
A couple of years ago, (2010-11 school year) one of my colleagues attended a workshop with the intermediate school district on teaching math. At our grade level meetings (4th grade), this teacher relayed to us what she’d learned and what she had begun implementing in her classroom. They don’t want any division and multiplication problems used/taught in fourth grade. No pencil and paper work. They want the children to use “manipulatives” exclusively in fourth grade (manipulatives are blocks that they use in early el to teach math concepts.) One exercise she was particularly excited about was a division lesson in which the student used small pick-up trucks, blocks, math mats for their desks. They would load up the pick up truck with blocks, dividing a group of blocks to learn the concept of division. I was floored. I told her and the other fourth grade teacher I worked with at the time that I didn’t plan on using the new system, but was planning on sticking with the “old-fashioned” math. She told us the district would begin phasing-in this new system within a few years.
EXCELLANTE!!!
doubtless the source of the math being taught at Barack Obama Middle School
EXCELLANTE!!!
doubtless the source of the math being taught at Barack Obama Middle School
I had never thought of this before, but I'll bet it's true. This dumbed-down arithmetic is not to accomodate the students but the teachers. It's all they can handle. What do you say?
A lot of the younger teachers were miseducated themselves. Many of them have told me they never really drilled on their fact families (or multiplication tables, as we called them in third and fourth grades in the ‘60’s) when they were in elementary school. I actually have had principals (two of them) tell me “You can’t do that. You know children don’t learn that way”. I asked, “How did you and I learn, then?” I didn’t get much of a response.
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