Posted on 08/18/2013 9:28:41 AM PDT by grundle
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.
“We want our students to compute correctly but the emphasis is really moving more towards the explanation, and the how, and the why, and ‘can I really talk through the procedures that I went through to get this answer,’” August details. “And not just knowing that it’s 12, but why is it 12? How do I know that?”
Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW0VxxoCrNo
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
>>I’m saying they would do that in today’s public screw-hole...
Yeah. That’s exactly what the OP said. The answer isn’t important anymore and everyone passes.
Stolen and printed out
3x4 is whatever the Party says it is.
“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable—what then?” - George Orwell
Yeah, I didn't catch that part of it the first time I watched it.
But like I mentioned in the comment, explaining how the incorrect conclusion was reached is important to know so you can correct the student.
I assumed the student was corrected.
Leftists do not believe in reality
“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.”
So, “I guessed” would be just fine.
I know, I got taken to the wood shed already.
I assumed they were corrected...my bad.
This is the layer of 'the teaching profession' that needs to be taken out, placed against a wall and sh*t. Leave the teachers to do their thing unencumbered by these idiots. We will get to sorting out the teachers soon after.
Imagine these people building rockets and spacecraft
One beef is:
There are no absolutes. If there are no absolutes, then nothing is certain. If nothing is certain, then whatever power you or someone like you believes is their salvation or their “teat” for survival is the authority to which one must appeal or conform.
There are some areas in which equivocation is possible. But to now make 2 * 37 = 28 an acceptable answer, provided sufficient justification is supplied, is absurd.
I used to sit on a stool in the kitchen and sing the alphabet and recite my times tables up to 10 x 10 while my mom was fixing dinner long before I ever started school. My dad and I also played a spelling game for an hour every day. He’d spell a four letter word and I had to spell the next one beginning with the last letter of his word. Repeats were not allowed and he always remembered when I’d try that. Started all of this when I was about four. School was a breeze and most calculations I could do in my head, unless like today’s youth who have to have a mechanical device to do them. Wonder how many parents do these exercises today.
Rote is good IMO. Some things just ARE - as I’ve gotten older it matters less and less as to the why.
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A baby isn’t a baby unless you want it. A boy is a girl and a girl is a boy if they want to be. Gay is “normal”. ETC ETC. Leftists are in denial of reality all the way through.
Get your children out of public schools now...there is NO other solution.
Reasoning be damned. In mathematics, the ONLY result that matters is the RIGHT answer! If you reason your way to a wrong answer, you're no more useful than an idiot who blundered his way to the same wrong answer.
I don’t assume anything anymore
And that kind of thinking is well on its way to becoming normal.
the NEW MATH has now been relegated to the dust bin being replaced by Post Modern Math!
Yes it is.
As you follow the thread, you will see that I assumed that they were.
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