Admiral Rockwell Tory
Diamond Member
Intelligent people laugh at Common core, It takes 10 steps to solve the same problem that traditional arithmetic takes a step and a halfThe math that kids learn today may seem utterly ridiculous compared to what we learned in math 50 or 60 years years ago. In those days 85% of math instruction was teaching arithmetic. Math today is far more than teaching kids arithmetic. We have computers that can handle all our calculation needs.Thank God. Another victory for President Trump and America.
Where our kids fall short compared to other countries is there inability to grasp concepts of higher mathematics. The reason for this is elementary instruction in math has not provide kids with the foundation they needed to understand higher math. Kids have passed integral and differential calculus, not because they understood basic laws of mathematics but because they memorizing methods of solving problems similar to what they did when they learned to divide and multiple. The result was they did not understand the basics, and when it came to applying what they learned to real world problems or understanding more advanced mathematical concepts they were lost.
So when your kids come home from school and they can't divide two 3 digit numbers or can't remember all their multiplication tables, don't worry. No one is going to be hiring them to do arithmetic. If they are going into a technical field, they better be able to think like a mathematician and that is what Common Core Math Standards are all about.
The two most important documents in math and science education are Common Core Standards and Next Generation Science Standards.
Exactly common core math first teaches you the wrong way to solve a problem.
Just because you cannot figure it out doesn't make it wrong. It makes you a dumb ass!
Then answer the two questions child (because I know your a kid now)
What two questions? Do you mean the ones that are obvious misprints because they left out key information?
I have bad news for you. I taught school for about 14 years before Common Core and we had that problem then , as I am sure they do in states that never adopted Common Core or have abandoned it.
It's a fucking misprint. If you can't see that, you are a the dumb ass!