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Priceless: Student Sums Up Common Core Idiocy in a SINGLE Word
Top Right News ^ | 07-08-2014 | Gina Cassini

Posted on 07/13/2014 11:46:51 AM PDT by AuditTheFed

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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Lol! I understand...but there are SOME very good public school teachers. Unfortunately, there are many inept or outright horrible teachers these days.


21 posted on 07/13/2014 12:21:07 PM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo....Sum Pro Vita - Modified Descartes)
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To: JoeFromSidney

Anyone remember New Math from the sixties? I got A’s in math without knowing a single thing about what I was doing. A wrong answer didn’t matter...you just had to understand the process.


22 posted on 07/13/2014 12:21:49 PM PDT by freepertoo
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To: Tigerized

looks like we don’t have a common core : )


23 posted on 07/13/2014 12:22:37 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( On to impeachment and removal (IRS, Open Borders, pro-terrorist, Fast and furious, VA, Benghazi)!!!)
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To: AuditTheFed; Hunton Peck; Diana in Wisconsin; P from Sheb; Shady; DonkeyBonker; Wisconsinlady; ...

Wisconsin 5th grader fires back at Common Core.

FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest jping list.


24 posted on 07/13/2014 12:23:22 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: JoeFromSidney

26+17=43

6+7= 13
Put the 3 in the ones column carry the 1.
2+1 = 3+1= 4 which ges in the 10’s column.


25 posted on 07/13/2014 12:25:26 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (GM is dead and Al Queada is alive.)
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To: AuditTheFed

If that word was important, it would have been included in the post.

As it is, I think you’re just a troll looking for clicks to your blog.


26 posted on 07/13/2014 12:28:36 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (An armed society is a polite society.)
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To: morphing libertarian

Yes, that also works. It does not matter much how you break it down, as long as you understand the fundamental process.


27 posted on 07/13/2014 1:16:23 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Yardstick
Reminds me of the shortcuts I use to do math quicker.

Same here. If I'm doing it on paper, I'll use the carrying method, but if I'm doing it in my head, this is exactly the method I use. I didn't learn it in school, though. I do it instinctively.

28 posted on 07/13/2014 1:19:12 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: exDemMom

I find people develop their own systems. I used to sit in meetings and add columns of numbers in my head as fast as someone wrote them down.

When asked how I did it I merely said, catholic school.

The common core example is too convoluted. It seems to turn simple addition into algebra.


29 posted on 07/13/2014 1:20:31 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( On to impeachment and removal (IRS, Open Borders, pro-terrorist, Fast and furious, VA, Benghazi)!!!)
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To: Tigerized
Tigerized said: "I do it this way mentally..."

And I did it differently.

I recognized that 17 is nearly 20.
I added 10 to 26 to get 36.
Then I added 10 again to get 46.
Then I subtracted 3 because 17 is not quite 20.

Sometimes I will just mimic the way done on paper. I glance at the units column and see that there is a carry.

Then I add 2 plus 1 plus the carry to get 4.

Finally, ignoring the carry I add 6 + 7 to get the 3, for an answer of 43.

The point being, I don't do it the same way all the time.

I recall an anecdote from a book by Richard Feynman, the Nobel prize winning physicist. He is with several other people who propose a math problem to him. As a result of some coincidental relationships in the numbers, he is able to do the mental calculation to generate an answer to several decimal places, impressing the people around him.

His was another example of the fact that a skilled person wouldn't necessarily use just one approach to making such a calculation.

Those of us who use such shortcuts to making calculations do so in order to save the trouble of doing the calculation on paper. If a person doesn't have the skills to do the paper calculation, then there will be little incentive to understand and retain shortcuts.

Educators have been struggling for generations to find some way to teach arithmetic and higher math to the masses. They have failed to improve on the necessity of having everybody learn the basics. Calculators allow people to be ignorant, they are not a replacement for knowledge.

30 posted on 07/13/2014 1:21:46 PM PDT by William Tell
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To: AuditTheFed

Perhaps those who support this convoluted idiocy would like their SALARIES added up that way? What`s a few number less when it comes to real money?


31 posted on 07/13/2014 1:26:08 PM PDT by ClearBlueSky (When anyone says its not about Islam...it's about Islam. That death cult must be eradicated.)
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To: Scrambler Bob

I guess that the Amish are the superstars of your world...


32 posted on 07/13/2014 1:30:21 PM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: morphing libertarian

26+17=(20+10)+(6+7)=30+13=43.
That is the way my mind sees it.


33 posted on 07/13/2014 1:34:07 PM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: AuditTheFed

Push 2
Push 6
Push Enter
Push 1
Push 7
Push +


34 posted on 07/13/2014 1:35:22 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: SumProVita

Re the quality of teachers, it was Thomas Sowell who confirmed that today’s public school teacher comes from the bottom 25% of the average college graduating class. If it doesn’t already, that statistic ought to alarm you.

Meaning, in the average American classroom, the innate intelligence of 3/4 of the kids is higher than the innate intelligence of the teacher. Another scary thought.

Now imagine that same teacher of below average intellect trying to teach Junior a complicated concept like the alternate way to add two figures.

Makes me shudder.


35 posted on 07/13/2014 1:35:36 PM PDT by tom h
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To: tom h

Trust me...I was alarmed a loooong time ago.

;-o


36 posted on 07/13/2014 1:54:47 PM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo....Sum Pro Vita - Modified Descartes)
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To: William Tell

They have failed to improve on the necessity of having everybody learn the basics.

__________________________

Bingo!


37 posted on 07/13/2014 1:56:24 PM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo....Sum Pro Vita - Modified Descartes)
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To: AuditTheFed

LOL! Good for him. MATH!

I love it.


38 posted on 07/13/2014 2:36:28 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I am a product of what was called “New Math”in the sixties. I never was taught to memorize basic multuplication tables. I was taught some cockeyed way to analyze it beginning with the number times 100 and go back....oh I still don’t understand it. I became a calculator baby from that point and still use my fingers at times. My kids MEMORIZED their times tables and can calculate in their heads.


39 posted on 07/13/2014 3:37:27 PM PDT by Semperfiwife (Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. Russia never forgets. We do.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

You’re right ... I use a similar system when grocery shopping. Great for adding lots of numbers in your head quickly. For anything else it’s a total waste of time.


40 posted on 07/13/2014 3:38:31 PM PDT by GOPJ (A ship once out of port is hard to capture:know this now before it is too late. - Solon)
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