Posted on 05/15/2014 4:29:29 AM PDT by Olog-hai
An Iowa woman jokingly calls it “Satan’s handiwork.” A California mom says she’s broken down in tears. A Pennsylvania parent says it “makes my blood boil.”
What could be so horrible? Grade-school math.
As schools around the U.S. implement national Common Core learning standards, parents trying to help their kids with math homework say that adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing has become as complicated as calculus.
They’re stumped by unfamiliar terms like “rectangular array” and “area model.” They wrestle with division that requires the use of squares, slashes and dots. They rage over impenetrable word problems. …
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Parents need to attack Common Core as child abuse and demand that politicians, school administrators, and teachers who try to implement Common Core on children are put on nationwide lists of child abusers.
Just like zerocare, the elitist don’t have to live with this. They have their kids in private school. No cc for them, they will rise educationally about the government masses.
“In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.” - Mark Twain
This is the design. To divide parents from their children, to prevent the prior generation from passing on knowledge. It’s diabolical and very Brave New Worldish.
How sad. There is a very easy solution to grade school math that will work for over 90% of students. MEMORIZE your multiplication facts from 0x0 up to 12x12. Once you have those memorized, everything up to Geometry is doable.
Even the Parochial and Private schools will have trouble avoiding those indoctrinated to teach using methods approved by the same people who issue teaching degrees and certificates to the teachers in the public schools.
This is a pervasive rot in education, and difficult to avoid.
There was a video explaining how 32-12 would be solved with Common Core math. The next generation of kids are going to be unable to function outside school if that is the only method they are taught.
Ole Mark had a pretty keen sense of observation.
(Assuming I know the root of your screen name...) How is Panamon Creel?
“Learning to play the piano is done through repetition and practice of fundamentals (scales and such) not theory alone, it’s the same with mathematics.”
Excellent!
Then find a private or parochial school that doesn’t participate in that curriculum or teach to those methods. Someone needs to show me where Christian/Catholic/Baptist/etc schools are just busting to get them some common core before I buy the story that it a problem there, too.
Hundreds of Catholic schools have adopted Common Core from what I have read elsewhere.
That’s a good point...everyone learns differently. I did not really GET calculus the old school taught way. The light didn;t come on until I did Excel spreadsheets with math functions. Ironic it was, as I got straight B’s in Calc and the light came on using a product that Bill Gates sold!
When a program whose stated goals could have been accomplished far cheaper and easier and without a particular consequence,
you can assume that the consequence IS the goal.
Which is why the drive-thrus have the automatic change makers. /sigh
to separate children from their parents
And the parents are in charge, here. If Catholic schools start seeing their enrollment get kneecapped, common core will get dropped like a bad habit (there may be a pun here that needs pardoning).
Not everyone can afford to put their kids in a private school.
The real problem is that it isn’t the only way that they’re taught. It’s just one of any number of ways they’re taught, which ensures that they won’t understand any of them.
Unnecessary complications and deliberate confusion abound. Equations are no longer equations; they’re now “number sentences”. Kids no longer “solve for x” or “express x in terms of. ..”; they now “make x the subject of the number sentence”. Subjects and sentences belong in English class, not math class.
< rant over >
Bulls**t. I sent mine to a private school and I was making way below the average income at the time. It meant eatling lots of mac and cheese, not going out to movies or events and not having a fancy phone. I also had a deadbeat ex wife on my payroll the whole time. If I can do this, so can others.
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