Get rid of the calculators given out to kindergartners. Don't laugh! They start them out on calculators in public schools.
This ast spring our brillant public school teachers were wondering if kids really knew their math facts in middle school and elelmentary school. So for the FIRST time they had ONE section of the math test where they could NOT use calculators in determining the righ tmultiple choice answer. (Rolling my eyes). For the rest of the math testing, CALCULATORS were allowed and ENCOURAGED in determining which multiple choice answer was CORRECT.
G-d provided calculators when we were born...people need to start using them.
I wonder if this is partly due to changes in college admissions. When colleges embraced affirmative action in recruitment, they did so by establishing rules like accepting the top 5 percent of high school students etc. SAT or other third party assessments were abandoned as biased and high schools acquired a greater influence on which of their students went to college. Grade inflation in high schools really sky rocketed to give under performing or ‘strivers’ a chance at college. But the next step after high grades is to have the correct college prep courses. Enter calculus. I don’t believe there are high school proficiency tests for calculus like there are for basic math. So the proficiency tests turn out to be the watch dog here - exposing the false claims that high schools make to colleges regarding their students.
The NJ Education Secretary should be fired and put on unemployment.
Dumb people are easier to govern...It was always illegal to school serfs, peons, slaves and commoners - as the ruling class considers us to be.
CALCULATORS would have been banned in school in my day. We had to learn multiplication tables, and that serves me well even today. Another sad omission by the “dumbthemdown” government schools is penmanship. Not only was that subject good for eye-hand coordination, it taught self discipline, neatness and an appreciation of beauty Children have been taught to be government dependent in public schools for the past 50 years. Fortunately many of their parents were better educated. If you think things are bad now, just wait until these kids are the parents!
They used a poor understanding of a biological mechanism and a wishful thinking model of evolution to try to improve their wheat production. Communists sent out questionnaires on just how much Comrade and Patriot and Hero of the People Lysenko's system improved your wheat production. Huge increases were reported! Yet total wheat production went down, and Russia had to import wheat from the USA.
Communism isn't working, but that is OK, because Communists get to fake their own results!
A report delivered at today's state Board of Education meeting will recommend four new policies to aid students who weren't proficient enough in reading, writing or math to meet state graduation standards.
So, the Board of Education finds that schools were falsifying reports. And their solution is to try to show those school new ways to help the students learn? That, in a nutshell, is the problem with government education today. The idiots running the place have no idea how to think. The bigger problem in "kids that can't do math deemed to have passed calculus by their schools" isn't that the kids can't do math. (Although that is a problem) The bigger concern is that the institutions entrusted with teaching them are committing fraud. How is better instruction material or methods going to help that?
There was a section for her comments and she let them have it about the idiotic spiral math program they started for kids younger than her during those years.
Hey they can do mathemetics - i.e. calculus - it’s just arithmetic they have a hard time with.