Posted on 08/19/2013 4:45:47 AM PDT by Kaslin
It doesn't make sense to all educators...just the liberal ones. I've been asking about this stupid "Common Core" ever since I heard about it. Not one teacher can tell me what it is and what makes it so good as they promote it.
I always ask them, "Doesn't the name of it tell you something? Doesn't it sound Communistic to you?" They just stare at me. I doubt I'll be teaching it, especially if it praises wrong answers.
Easy to control. No production; no drugs. obey or no drugs. British used it quite successfully on Chinese during the 1800s.
They need to learn only two letters...”D” and “X” and to learn to mark the one next to the other when they go to vote. Simple strokes for simple folks.
Liberals do have difficulty with math. They believe that the behavior of 2% of the population should be forced upon everyone, that the 1% of babies conceived through rape and incest justifies the slaughter of the other 99%, that 43% of the vote constitutes a mandate, that it is immoral to give tax cuts to the 10% who pay the lion’s share of the taxes, that there are 57 states, that confiscating the hard earned money of 51% to give to those who pay no taxes is ethical, and on and on.
My wife is a math teacher at a CC school.
Lets just say that will not happen in her classroom.
Now on the grade school level, many of the students get two WEEKS of math a year. That is it.
"2 + 2 = 5" was used in the book.
And 2 + 2 does equal 5, for unusually large values of "2." ;-)
Of course, the logical inconsistency of this "truth" escapes the advocates.
“Umm, no. I’m in an engineering discipline and an industry where if (when) people make mistakes, other people die.”
School is the place to learn that even if you did everything right and wrote down the wrong answer you are still wrong. Being careful, double checking your answers and making sure is the road to success, not teaching that screw ups are OK if you understood the “process”.
How do they teach math in China? Seems to work pretty well over there. I know people who send their kids back to china for summer school since they are dissatisfied with the education their kids get in some very highly rated US schools.
How do they teach math in China? Seems to work pretty well over there. I know people who send their kids back to china for summer school since they are dissatisfied with the education their kids get in some very highly rated US schools.
But this lunacy, praising obviously wrong answers, if the child also shows a corrupt ability to rationalize fantasy, takes folly to a new level! We then combine the failure to reason to a constructive purpose, with an ability to justify failure. It would be as though the Courtiers in Hans Christian Andersen's fable, put the young boy who had the honesty to say that the Emperor was naked, into a remedial education program, to make sure he would never embarrass anyone, by telling the whole truth again!
It is impossible to satirize the compulsive denial of reality that is destroying our civilization. The imagination of normal Americans can not keep up with the passionate flights of Egalitarian fantasy.
William Flax
I say that we should begin use of this math concept immediately, but apply it individually. For example, the State B.O.E. member that proposes this program in your state, can have his or her paycheck figured with this method. Let’s see... 40 hours at $87.50 per hour, you get $325.00 this week, using Common Core Math. Now tell me how proud of me you are! Oh Wait!!! I forgot to take out for Obama Care..... now you owe the State $600.00, when can we expect your check to arrive? See, Common Core is not so bad, when properly applied!
It’s because of math that there is resistance to debts and deficits.
* “Truth” is an artificial construct of the patriarchy, invented as a tool of oppression. *
“Help! I’m being repressed!”
Ah! I didn’t think of that :)
I wonder what Muslim kids here in our skools will think.. considering math goes back a long long way in their history.
CRazy americans..
We pulled our child from first grade this morning after the parent orientation. They did not want to show the parents the books and they were all Common Core.
After my wife (former teacher, now lawyer) and her mother (retired 1st grade teacher) started asking questions, it just got worse. They want our son to stagnate so everyone else can catch up. He gets a measly 30 mins a day to either read or do math at the elevated level and ONLY 1 grade higher.
Too many intelligent people are harmful to marxist ideology.
This country is too far ahead of the rest of the world, so if we dumb down our populace the rest of the world can catch up.
If we don't have enough intelligent people in this country to fill many high end jobs, we will have to import more foreigners to fill those jobs.
More idiots will fill the coffers of Unions and Democrats.
This Common Core Bullshit is a wonderful solution if you have to correct mindset.
Oh, I HATE this!! It is permeating the schools.
When my son was a senior in high school two years ago he had to EXPLAIN all of his answers which he found stupid, tedious unnecessary and he fought against it — this was in AP Calculus classes!!
Even though ALL the answers were right, he was marked down on the explanations and ended up getting a “B” the first year — even though he got a 5 on the AP Calculus test.
Next year, same thing. He was SO discouraged he refused to explain his answers and earned a “C” by the time the final came up — he ended up getting a 100 on the final and a 5 on the second AP test and a B- in the class.
Unfortunately, he is finding the same thing at his university. He took 2nd year physics and got a B+ — even though he KNEW all of the problems, got them all right, knew the properties involved knew what he was doing — but the prof didn’t accept his explanations and marked him down on the final which lowered his grade to a B+ — he was furious to say the least.
Great way to discourage kids in higher math, physics, electrical engineering, computer science, etc.
I am a product of “new math” — a program that made little to no sense to me and didn’t seem to have anything to do with math.
I still struggle to this day!!
And, my dad was a professor of math and physics.
He said he couldn’t understand why anyone would think teaching the way “new math” instructed would be a good idea. He told me after “new math” students were coming into the university (not easy to get into) with a profound lack of knowledge in math — couldn’t do the simplest of operations especially fractions.
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