Modern day basic math: Why are they making it harder? (Video)

American Enterprise Institute ^ | March 30, 2014 | Mark J. Perry

[QT3.14]

Check out this video and feel your head spin like Linda Blair as you watch the teacher go into a very, very complicated and convoluted method (algorithm?) to solve the very, very simple subtraction problem 32 – 12 = 20. Source.

[QT3.14]

Was this logic used to set up the ZeroCare sites?

[GraceG]

Common Core

otherwise known as

Commie Crap

[Catmom]

Ya gotta keep them dumb if you wanna keep them under control.

[camle]

they want you to feel stupid so you’ll be conditioned into asking government people for help, and dissuaded from thinking for your own

[GraceG]

What the hell was that exactly......

Seriously, are we intentionally confusing our children?

32-12=20

32-12

32-10 = 22 22 -2 = 20

Much easier just to line them up and subtract for cryuing out loud.... A good 99% of the population doesn't need a PHD course in abstract number theory for their career options in the future...

Why the hell are we teaching confusing "Al-Gore-Rhythms"?????

And the crap they are using are even more confusing, seriouslly it would bea esier to teach them decimal to binary conversion and do all their math in binary then convert the damnned thing back!!!!

Commie Core Math, more confusing that Binary Conversion...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The purpose of Common Core is to make everybody equal. Since it is too difficult to teach the dumb kids to make them equal to the smart kids, the goal is instead to make the smart kids dumb by baffling and discouraging them with nonsense.

Government schools are failing because they are run by affirmative action union goons. This chart shows you everything you need to know.

It's time to move to charter schools, where there is actual competition. Give the students vouchers, and let them go to school where they choose.

[null and void]

Because it’s impossible for anyone trained in traditional math or modern math to explain it to their own children.

The lesson isn’t math, it is that your parents are idiots, don’t listen to them.

[Huskrrrr]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wHDn8LDks8

[Organic Panic]

WOW. I can’t tell you how this way of doing math is the way my buddies and I argue about the solutions to the world’s problems after consuming large amounts of beer.

[Semper911]

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[UCANSEE2]

Ya gotta keep them dumb if you wanna keep them under control.

How ya gonna keep them down on the farm, after they've seen Paree' ?

[null and void]

Gay Pareé?

[TexasRepublic]

Why are “they” making math harder? Comrade, if it was too easy, some people might become engineers or captains of industry and make positive contributions to the economy instead of going on welfare. Besides, we can’t have inequality in the classroom - somebody’s feelings would get hurt.

[UCANSEE2]

Gay and , apparently, ‘dumb’.

[NTHockey]

I want to see them do that with fractions.

[unlearner]

As she says, this is what public school students are being axed to do.

[mc5cents]

Ma and Pa Kettle Math

Better than common core!

[GeronL]

It would be impossible to use math this way in the real world, these kids would be non-functional even if they passed all this stuff

[MrB]

Well, in the case of those that came up with common core, it probably wasn’t beer, but something smoked, that was at the root of their self-determined “genius”.