Posted on 07/19/2023 10:04:40 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Some More School Garbage
Some Mad Scientist Goofed.
“math identity rainbows”: Each student is to pick a color representing his or her individual strength — communicating, perseverance or numerical reasoning (i.e., actual math) — with an eye on teamwork in a supposed “mathematical community.”
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What’s accomplished if a kid can’t multiply 5X7?
Lol
I believe fuzzy stuff came later. SMSG was very rigid and specific and did introduce set theory which was difficult for some students because it was new for teachers too. The math terms like associative, commutative, transitive and identities for mult and addition were new to the students, and I remember commiting them to memory and getting good grades without really understanding them. (Hint, distributivity for multiplication over addition means A *(B + C) = AB + AC These were the heart of SMSG. and were not part of the old math curriculum.
The idea was important for math theory but I did not use it as I became an engineer.
I confess to not "getting" the complete application of the terms in HS.
Later, pursuing my science degrees, I don't recall using them, but they may have helped me in some backwater ways.
I’m not a mathy person but I worked a high-tech job with a lot of high-techy gizmos.
I passed college Math 101, and the more specialized math course related to my job. Never used any of it during my long career. I’d wager most people don’t.
IMHO, it would be nice if there was a “Math Lite” track, to give people an awareness of math, but leave the heavy math to those who will constructively use it.
Granted, lying to kids and parents and faking grades is another matter entirely. They’re probably doing it with most subjects to inflate their stats. Math proficiency 13%, reading proficiency 17%, graduation rate 79%.
When I attended high school there were essentially two courses available. “College Prep” which taught courses like Trig and Calculus. The other course was “Shop” which taught things (as near as my wife the teacher remembers) l.ike wood working, welding, mechanics and electrical repair. If nyone suggests that today they would be called racists and banned due to DEI. So now that essentially is gone and the brightest students have to be held back for “equity”.
Well, my high school was very good, and I went on to college and medical school - but the best classes I had (required) were wood shop, metal shop, and electrical shop (grades 10, 11, and 12). Boys only.
Doing away with those classes was a huge mistake.
Sure FRiend: if a=b and b=c then a=b
You use it in science all the time
Does it matter if you know the term?
Only in a geom proof
Keep ‘em poor. Keep ‘em stupid. Keep ‘em voting Democrat.
I remember watching the crabs in a crab trap. Whenever a crab would climb up and try to go out the hole, other crabs would grab him and drag him back down. There were several claws hanging on at the entrance where crabs had pulled him down so hard his claws came off.
Leftists drag down anyone who is about to succeed. They call it “equity”.
And a lot of kiddos today are shunning the college routine in favor of apprenticeships for electricians, welders plumbers and so on because you can make a decent living in those professions without having to listen to robot professors spouting about great Socialism/Communism/Democratism is and why we need DEI and ESG.
“Keep ‘em stupid”
School doesn’t change how smart you are.
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