Here is how Common Core “works“:
Pretty simply, right…? Here are a few more examples:
I only have a degree in Mechanical Engineering so please explain to me; what the fuck is a Subtraction Sentence????
This is exactly the type of higher level math that prepares one for college and a good career (sigh….).
This is what happens when the same douchenozzles that brought us Obama-Care get more involved in the public/government school system.
The kids will not be able to find their way out of a paper sack.
Re “Everyone is now dumber.”
What’s wrong with that?
If everyone is dumber, it’ll be easier for you to get a job, it will be easier for you to advance your career, it will be easier for you to make money investing, and it will be easier for the government to control people so that social disruptions won’t affect your moving up the ladder…. That is, as long as you’re not one of the dumbshit everyones.
WTF is this?
Can there be ANY doubt that the curriculum of public schools is the dumbing down of Americans?
WTF??
I can’t think of a better way to produce a math-challenged population than to teach math this way.
I can’t imagine the Common Core programs for reading, writing, and spelling. Are the kids required to learn to write shit BACKWARDS first, then hold it up to a mirror to read it, as I did as a slightly dyslexic 3-year-old?
There is an old essay written by the incomparable Ayn Rand, written back in the 1960s, that addresses the deep idiocy of the “progressive” teaching methods of the mid- twentieth century, called THE COMPRACHICOS, comparing the destruction wrought on the child’s mind by the anti-rational “progressive” educational methods of the modern era, with the medieval practice of forcing a poor child to grow up inside a jar designed to cripple him and distort his body into a grotesque shape. While the “comprachicos” of old times deformed the body, the modern “comprachicos” take a child of normal intelligence and turn him into a moron. And the damage is permanent and incurable.
The essay is here: http://home.comcast.net/~jdfusa/files/thecomprachicos.pdf
Forgive me… the essay was published in the 70s.
This type of math can only be performed on a HP 11C calculator that uses reverse polish notation.
Stephanie Shepard says:
“WTF??”
And to think, you’re upset at the bullshit you were handed in life! In a few years all the idiots being taught this shit are going to be telling you how easy you had it. And so it goes.
I_S
IS- That is the only response I had for this new way.
Here are some more propaga…. – instructional examples – from Common Core.
http://dollarvigilante.com/blog/2014/3/2/us-schools-go-full-bore-soviet.html
Stephanie Shepard says:
“IS- That is the only response I had for this new way.”
So what will your response be when these kids show up here in a few years telling you how good YOU had it?
With a little luck, common core readin’ and writin’ will be so bad you’ll never have to worry about it.
I_S
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Thank Fuck I made it out when I did. What the hell are these kids gonna do with large numbers like 34567 – 13204? I don’t even want to know what “new” division looks like.
One of my customers, a nurse and an engineer with two small kids, who have benefited greatly from education, are currently looking into any and all alternative schooling methods they can find. Including “unschooling”. Now I see why.
It would take forever with my calculator to do it that way.
And I thought my educators were shoveling bullshit down our throats. This shit is insane.
c’mon, is this really true? who is the asshat who invented this so-called “new method” ? can someone tell me what was wrong with the “old method”? it confirms my working hypothesis that leftists/progressives cannot leave anything alone, not even math problems apparently.
there was a dispute on an earlier thread regarding the merits, demerits of slapping your child in an extreme circumstance. can the warring parties come together and agree that whoever invented this “new method” deserves a real good old fashioned beat-down?
Harry, I couldn’t make shit out of that either and I have degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
If you count them, that’s (7-5)/(2-1)! = 2.
What a complicated bullshit way to do something so simple. This cannot be an accident…it isn’t.
Today my oldest son and I tapped maples. At 17 he has the stamina and the coordination as well as the experience to keep up with me as we make our way through the orchard. We calculated fall, we discussed production levels and weather conditions. We used several tools; hammers, shears, knives and spiles. We determined the health and vigor of each tree, examined and replaced damaged or blocked lines and tightened loose wires. We went over the ideal number of taps per 5/16 inch line at a minimum drop of 5 degrees and the resulting increase in mainline size to adequately transfer the sap to the incoming lines. We covered vectors and vaccuum, dimensional lumber calculations, orienteering, gas temperatures, brix readings using a refractometer and the resulting evaporation rate of the sap both before and after filtration using reverse osmosis.
During this time we walked about three or four miles carrying our tools and supplies as we went. For lunch we ate roasted pork from the pigs we raised and sweet pickles my wife made last summer from our garden and hot tea from a thermos sweetened with maple syrup the cattle watching from the ridge above. It snowed for about five or six hours; big, fat, puffy flakes like something from a Dr Seuss book and then the Sun came out and the clouds started scutting across the sky like they had a plan, grey at first and then turning pink and purple with the late afternoon light. By the time we made it back indoors it was almost dark but my son wanted to talk about his finances and developing an app he has been working on that shows you what your carbon footprint is on any given day based on what you eat, how far you travel and by what means, the temperature in your home, etc I haven’t got a clue about the last thing he is working on, but I will say that I am fairly confident that my teenager can solve virtually any problem given to him if he has the tools and a clear explanation of the problem.
When I see things like the math above I shudder because I know that 90% of the parents out there haven’t got a clue about “outcome based’ math much less understand the questions being asked. In real life you’d think that you’d want to prepare people to accomplish authentic goals using math as a tool, like a bit and brace or a pair of snow shoes to achieve some kind of end that translates into sustenance, knowledge or wealth,
Maybe we’re making a mistake with our kids, but I don’t think so. They have that lean and hungry look that makes you think that you aren’t the only one keeping score. They ask the kinds of questions that make you have to think a little bit yourself and then they go off and process that until they have another one ask-
I look forward to tomorrow when my son and I will continue up the flank of our mountain installing taps and repairing lines, calling out to each other with little bits of information, throwing out questions and tossing back answers, all the while improving the quality of our lives and this land, one math problem at a time.
My God, where are they going to find union drone teachers smart enough to teach this horsehit?
Mathematics is the language of the Gods, the universe, the universal language, and it took liberal progressive communists to to fuck it up. Still think they aren’t agents of the devil?
I have a BS in Accounting, I’m a CPA, and an MBA. And I have no fucking idea what the fuck they are doing with this bastardized bullshit math.
Do you think the kids learning this method can figure out how to give change from a dollar using their head?
Unbelievable.
Must be a joke.
Mustn’t it?
…and the teachers are shoving it up their little asses, and sleeping like babies when they
hit the sheets.
Holy shit. I could actually die while waiting for one of these highly educated fucks to go through the math contortions to give me change for a $5, from a $1.37 purchase.
Hardscrabble, that is pure poetry. I spent many a March on snowshoes with my father, tapping trees. There was nothing like sitting in a sugar shack full of steam and smelling that liquid gold form.
About this math… we learned the “new math” pictured as the “old fashion” [sic] way in the top pic. Add or subtract down, carry a number over, add / subtract the next column. My father groaned when he saw it… particularly when he realized we couldn’t easily make change from the cash drawer trying to add columns and do carry-overs in our heads.
Once he explained the “real math,” where you take that 32-12 and make it 32-10 = 22 – 2 = 20, it made things a lot easier. That’s a simple problem; it works great when you have 47 – 15 (47 – 10 = 37, -5 = 32). Break it down into manageable increments and you’re golden.
Same thing with my niece/nephews. They couldn’t make change at the farm market, when they first started helping there. So we taught them Dad’s (Grandpa’s) method, and now it’s no big deal to figure apple butter at 2.25/pint x 2, a gallon of cider at $4.75 and 10 lb of apples at $8.00. Customers are amazed at an 8-year old who gives them the $17.25 total faster than they can do it themselves, no calculator involved.
I can only hope that the morons who came up with this “new, NEW math” were attempting to return to the way my father taught us, but they’ve completely screwed it up. There’s no reason it needs to be that complicated. Cultures change, languages change, but numbers never change.
Dave, try giving them $5.02 for that $1.37 purchase. Almost no one can do that, any more.
Well, I don’t have any degrees in anything, scrub shitters for a living, smoked weed for years… That is four steps for a problem I have solved by the time I’ve finished reading it. Yeah, they’ll be able to make change for a dollar. In about 20 minutes. Would take less time to dig around under your car seat for change to find the exact amount.
What the hell.
Kids are so effing dumb in every other way, whether they can do basic maths is irrelevant, as they have no futures anyway.
6 yo kids on medications for anxiety, depression anxiety related behavioral disorders.
10 yo kids raping, robbing and having sex
13 yo’s hunched over stupid mobile phones 15 hours/day with the spines of 80 yo’s and in chronic pain.
16 yo’s incapable of displaying and understanding of simple concept presented to them and unable to perform basic mathematical operations WITH a calculator.
Every nomophobe exhibits what I call “human tree stump syndrome” where they stop dead on the spot (even in the middle of the road) to play with their damn phones.
Nope. Dumb and getting dumber and not worthy of even the most menial job these days.
Society’s screwed. The population screwed. The future screwed.
Like Bill Cosby said – I’m glad I’m not much longer for this world.
I used to return money to clerks when they gave me too much back. I no longer do that – I put it in my pocket and move on. First, it happens too often. Second, I got tired of arguing with them that they had over- paid me. They very often defend what they have done.
Recently, I bought $850 dollars worth of goods, one item worth ‘$430, plus lesser items. The clerk spent a lot of time helping me select that one item. She then tallied everything and said “That will be $420”. “You sure? ” says I. “Yep” says Einstein. “Great” says I.
I bought $850 worth of goods, the largest value being $430, and even tho I gave the bunny a clue she still could not buy a vowel and realize that she was charging me less than the value of the item we had been discussing for ten minutes.
So I paid $420 and went on my way. The bunny was around sixty, so it is not just youngsters who cannot count.
My wife was appalled that I did not make sure she got the right total. I told her 1) I gave her a big hint, and 2) not my job to count the total – that is their job. If employers cannot hire folks that count, they will suffer the consequences.
Llpoh, just giving you a hard time here (tongue fully in cheek), but do you happen to report that “income” on your tax return?
Thinker ,so in other words …your a Thief. ..and a deceiver which makes you a liar.But it at your honest about it.
I feel dumber after reading that.
Sorry thinker I meant LIpoh is a Thief ….what about all that talk about honestly ,truthfulness ,and hardwork.LIpoh,you stole that money.You are guilty.Shame on you.Confess your guilt!
I came across this data; school math testing “goals”. The schools will be happy if 45% of blacks can pass. It’s obvious to me they designed this new math system to fail. They have high hopes for the future, however, but I somehow don’t think they’ll get there. It’ll be great for our economy, and our nation in general, to have imbecile math-illiterate dumbshits walking the streets. I guess they don’t need math to stare at their iCrap and finger their phones. And for this we pay the parasitic union drone teachers (in Chicago) $100,000 a year? $12,000 per student? What a racket. I doubt the kids in China, Korea, or Japan, who get perfect scores on the math SAT, are using this system.
State proposes new math testing targets
State school officials proposed a set of new math testing targets Thursday that in six years would be the same for all student groups.
The old targets came under fire last month because they set different pass-rate goals for black, white, Hispanic and other students. The new plan would also set different goals initially but, by six years out, all would have to pass at the same rate of 73 percent to meet federal requirements.
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Lipoh ,this off topic, but an article on American Thinker blog appears today…..Why BITCOIN IS.NOT GOING AWAY…read and think.
Go back the top example.
One would have to be able to add 3+5+10+2 to get 20.
How is is possible someone can’t subtract 12 from 30 but can add 3+5+10+2 ?
See, there was this seemingly noble idea that children should be educated. But who can make sure that all of them get educated? No one person can make that happen. So, there was this second idea that the government should make sure that happens. Not the best idea in hindsight but, education is important, right? So the government builds the public school system. Decides what needs to be taught, hires teachers to teach it. But whose in charge of the government who runs the public school system? The people who win elections. And who wins elections? The liars. There’s the rub. We took this great idea and put it into the hands of quite possibly the worst people for the job.
bb – I did not steal shit. I gave the clerk all the goods. She tallied up the cost, presented me an invoice for the total, and I paid the bill. I even gave her the chance to re-tally,, but she refused. Too bad for her.
Thinker – interesting point. But I paid for everything I received, so no profit there, unless I then on sell. The clerk assured me I paid the correct amount. At best I received a very big discount. Who am I to argue.
Llpoh says:
“I used to return money to clerks when they gave me too much back. I no longer do that – I put it in my pocket and move on.”
This cannot be the same LLPOH who attacked Clammy for failing to report a $5.00 tip. The same guy who accused me of theft for using HD’s liberal return policy to my advantage. Say it ain’t so, Joe.
bb – saw that, read some of it, and decided it was bullshit. Maybe digital currency will survive, but people buying bitcoins are, have, and will continue to be scalded.
“I did not steal shit. I gave the clerk all the goods. She tallied up the cost, presented me an invoice for the total, and I paid the bill. I even gave her the chance to re-tally,, but she refused. Too bad for her.”
Yeah, that is theft. Most cashiers have to make for mistakes like that out of their paychecks. Way to be a douche bag, knowing full well you were shorting her.
Well, if we can’t dumb them down with Ebonics, at least we can still retard them with bad math…
Coyote – the employee is being paid to do their job. If they are morons, it comes at a price. I have no obligation to count their change for them. That I can instantly determine the amount I am owed does in no way confer an obligation on me to do their job for them. I do not go out of my way to take advantage. To correct their error costs me time and often puts me into conflict with them as They do not accept they have made a mistake. I am not there to lose time and be in conflict.
The two instances you mention are in fact instances where you are taking advantage intentionally, and where clammy is intentionally committing a crime.
That is a significant difference indeed.
I think admin discussed this last time, he said there had to be proof of malicious intent, mens rea, before we can charge Old LLPOH with any crime. I was merely razzing him. Please, put down the pitchforks.
This thread needs to die
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I did not short her. That implies I did something proactive, which I did not. I paid the invoice. The company has the ENTIRE responsibility for the invoice, the tally, the record keeping, and not the customer. The customer has no legal obligation re those things whatsoever. I gave her the chance to review it. Not my job to teach her, to tally the invoice, to argue with her. She fucked up. Best she find another line of work.
El coyote – you are correct. I had neither intent, but was no party to anything but paying the invoice as presented.
LLpoh- You are a thief.
As much as it’s fun to tease him about it, Llpoh is right… the store, through its employee, made the mistake. As much as it’s ethical to point out their error, it’s not required of the buyer. The invoice, as an agreement to the sale, is a contract. If a company screws up their invoice/contract, it’s their issue, not the
…buyer’s. Damn WP.
” As much as it’s ethical to point out their error, it’s not required of the buyer”
What about Llpoh’s strong moral code?