“borrowing” and “carrying” is so judgmental.
Math really is not that hard to teach, but if you try really, really hard you can make it impossible.
There is only one true “educational” system. It is Classical Education. It is why the West thoroughly trashed the East in Wisdom/ Knowledge/ Science/ Freedom/Creativity.
Classical Education created the greatest geniuses in the World and brilliant thinking people——can’t have that in a slave state (people won’t be “happy” slaves).
John Dewey’s / pragmatist/ progressive education is nothing but programming in irrationality. It was intentionally created to create a slave force for the State (J.S.Mill). It is designed to destroy Virtue (Excellence) and true Wisdom and destroy the Soul. The result: Adam Lanza and drugged kids who remain in their mother’s basement until age 30 and “feel” what is right and can’t use Reason.
I am not kidding....here is a short little video to help you understand WHY the only way to truly “educate” is through Classical Education, which I just watched. I also read Terrence Moore’s Book, Story-Killer which is excellent (about Common Core).
It gets good after a minute-—but that first minute is pretty crucial too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfkUjBUZroo
Maybe if schooling were about schooling and not drugging and ‘socialization’ things would be quite different.
Err...I’m a right dummy when it comes to math, but other than the “rectangular arrays” stuff that sounds very much like what math I had in my early years of schooling. It starts to wire the brain to understand numbers of things you can see or touch, and to mentally estimate and calculate. It really doesn’t seem unreasonable...
It’s actually straightforward enough I question if it’s really Commie Core!