Posted on 03/11/2015 10:52:12 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
I posted the link and instructions for the PARCC practice tests and Ohio’s AIR tests here: http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3265858/posts
Anybody can take the practice tests.
Get your children out of the government indoctrination centers - NOW!
This, however, is what the Common Core Standards expect our fourth graders to do. If they solve it in those two steps they get it marked wrong.
No way! This can't be for real.
Can anyone see any of these students being able to do double-entry bookkeeping in the future????
EVERY business needs such a person.
Nice work! She tells it like it is.
When one of my kids was in fifth grade, I went to a PTA night. The teacher, a nice fellow in his 60’s, thought he’d enlighten the parents by showing how they were teaching the kids division.
It was a cluster-f**k. In essence, the kids were supposed to be “seeing” everything in terms of powers of ten, but the method and notekeeping was extremely convoluted. I said, “What are you doing here? You’re trying to teach the kids to divide using synthetic division when they barely know arithmetic, and three or four years before the concepts of polynomials and synthetic division will be introduced.”
Now, this fellow wasn’t a bad guy, and didn’t care if the kids learned the traditional way at home. Many teachers aren’t so understanding.
Anyway, after the class, about a half-dozen parents came to me and thanked me for expressing succinctly and accurately what the pedagogic problem was.
This was maybe 15 or 17 years ago. I’m sure it has only gotten worse since then.
Thanks
Standing ovation for Karen Lamoreaux.
The Engineering teacher that prepared me best for the real world never gave lectures or went through the pages of the book with us.
He’d just walk into the class, tell us to go to the next problem in the back of the chapter and figure it out.
While I appreciate what this Arkansas mom is doing, why doesnt she point out that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to decide policy for intrastate schools?
Exactly! The idiots who came up the Common Core, the idiots who got it implemented, and the idiots who uncritically teach it STILL comprise government education. They haven’t gone anywhere, they haven’t dropped their agenda, and they’re going to damage your kids one way or another.
“why doesnt she point out that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to decide policy for intrastate schools?”
Whether the topic is roads, energy or schools, the one with the gold makes the rules. Since local society does not want to pay for anything anymore, that opens the doors up to the feds to control everything.
Common Core teached kids what the meaning of “is” is. :-)
It is for real.
During Parents’ Night at my daughter’s elementary school many years ago, her teacher announced that she would be teaching her pupils how to do division using the German method. Our school district probably has more engineers than most so we asked her to demonstrate this method. The teacher was unable to do so.
As Ms Bagman pointed out later, what good is it to teach one solution technique one year and then learn another one the next year?
Counts around? What the heck is that? Who writes these things?
I had never heard of this, so I went off looking for the German method. It is quite similar to normal long division, but doesn't keep the columns lined in rows. So it is really a notational difference. Why they don't want to use the current method is beyond me, other than to frustrate students and parents.
typo:
” ... but doesn’t keep the columns lined in rows.”
should be
” ... but doesn’t keep the columns aligned vertically.”
Sorry about that.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.