Posted on 05/16/2018 5:44:24 AM PDT by george76
“So Common Core is doing it’s job, what’s the issue? /s/”
What’s with the “/s/”. Common Core is doing EXACTLY what it was intended to do - which is bring US students down a few notches, so as to bring the country down to a level more ‘equitable’ with the rest of the world.
But I think they must be surprised at how many parents keep right on sending their kids to their schools, CLUELESS as to what’s going on.
Have at it!!!
Via an e-mail some years ago...
Teaching Math In 1950:
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit?
Teaching Math In 1960:
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price, or $80. What is his profit?
Teaching Math In 1970:
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80. Did he make a profit?
Teaching Math In 1980:
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80 and his profit is $20 Your assignment: Underline the number 20.
Teaching Math In 2010:
A logger cuts down some beautiful forest trees because he is selfish and inconsiderate and cares nothing for the habitat of animals or the preservation of our woodlands. He does this so he can make a profit. How do you feel about this way of making a living?
So true.
It's hard to believe that the plan was to make people less useful in Math. I suspect the problem is "the tests" are really messing up teaching and student confidence. The concept of the old Iowa tests, to assess weaknesses to be addressed, gave good teachers much more flexibility and knowledge to improve math skills.
I'm a math Luddite. Before the push to learn more, sooner, eighth grade Pre-Algebra was an excellent course for making sure math skills were complete and connected to Math topics (Algebra, Geometry, Trig, Prob&Stat) which follow. After an excellent PreAlgebra course, everything else goes smoothly and the student has a strong beginning in all of those topics.
Don't wind me up.
Want an eye-opener?
Go volunteer to tutor.
They cannot do simple math, algebra challenged, no cursive handwriting, reading challenged. This will not end well.
And these are the same people teaching your kids to sexually experiment and “be safe”.
They also teach Howard Zinn’s revisionist history.
America is screwed.
Sex education lead to a Democrat windfall in planned parenthood to kill off burdensome babies. Drug and pot legalization will lead to treatment centers that will kill off burdensome addicts and homeless.
I have seen some of that ‘Common Core’ math crap.
It’s absolutely the stupidest stuff you ever saw.
Kids will be completely math clueless as adults.
Which is what it’s for......................
Las señoras in my Spanish class are all retired teachers, all progressives and ALL hate common core. So, we finally have something in common. Though they’ll never admit from whence it’s planted.
Yes, those are the excuses. One more, schools are acrively telling kids to not tell their parents some of the things they’re being taught (I seem to recall in one Massachusetts school, some form of pervert or another was brought in to teach a class about perversion, and the kids were told to not to take the workbooks home or let their parents see them). Not to mention, the incidents where kids have been asked, in essence, to spy on theor families and report to their teachers (I assume so that the school can counter any beliefs instilled by the parents which are counter to the left’s agenda of perversion and anti-whiteness).
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OTOH, all my kids have excelled in math having been homeschooled.
Thank you Saxon Math!
Whoever wrote this article improperly conflates “percentages of enrollment” with the ability to perform algebra or pre-algebraic math. For meaningful analysis, compare statewide average performance on standardized math tests for various years. Next compare results for students subjected to Common Core versus conventional curricula. Which group has higher test scores AFTER their first year of algebra? Further separate results by socioeconomic and ethnic criteria. Using enrollment as a proxy for ability is a joke ... 87.35% of the time.
Every teacher I’ve ever talked to *HATES* Common Core with a passion.
But it’s mandat3ed that they teach it, and so they do as little as possible, and supplement it as well as they can.
Deliberate.
As were efforts to introduce/accept ‘creative spelling’, ebonics, and now ‘zim’ and ‘shim’ gender neutral phrasing.
Their goal is to destroy language, hamstring people, and bring down society.
I wonder if there were any studies that showed the common core method of teaching math was actually better than the old way? I suspect not, and that these “improvements” are done at the whim of some bureacracy. I also suspect that some of these methods (like whole word vs phonetics) are actually designed to dumb down American students to put us at a disadvantage.
I believe the Department of Education at the Federal level should be abolished and closed.
At one point, we ran education at the local level. Towns would hire their own teachers based on their own standards and the support of the parents who voted for them to make those decisions.
Each locality, even at a town or city level, made its own standards, and as such, served as a standalone unit to teach children.
They were held to account, if they failed in their mission to teach, the teachers or administrators were fired and new ones hired. Parents did not like if their children were taught by lousy teachers.
If, as a parent, you did not like the way your children were being taught, you could leave your “standalone unit” and move to another town or state, or send your child elsewhere.
The danger of having these federal standards like “Common Core” is that if they fail (which they clearly are) instead of one locality, town, or city being a failure, you have failure on a national level with no recourse for parents to send their children somewhere else (without having to pay extra for it, obviously, such as a private school)
There is no accountability when things like education are run at the Federal level.
“By 2014, California was the top state in the nation in eighth-grade algebra enrollment.”
So who cares about enrollment. How did these cupcakes compare with other students nationwide in algebra academics?
It's odd logic, like the more people on food stamps and welfare the better.
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