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This second grader’s revenge against Common Core math will make your day
The math curriculum used by the school is GO Math! The publisher of GO Math! is produced by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
The parent who sent the homework question to TheDC noted that the curriculum aligns with the Common Core math standards.
“If you look closely under the math question, you will be able to see the Common Core standards in a blue-colored print that aligns to that particular question,” she explained.
The constantly burgeoning inventory of sad and hideous Common Core math problems is very long.
Just this month, for example, a frustrated dad posted his kid’s absurd Common Core-aligned math homework on Instagram. (RELATED: ‘Why are they making math harder?’ More absurd Common Core math problems)
In February, a group of Common Core-aligned math — math — lessons oozed out of the woodwork which require teachers to ask students if the 2000 presidential election was fair and which refer to Lincoln’s religion as either “liberal” or nothing. (RELATED: Common Core MATH lesson plans attack Reagan, list Lincoln’s religion as ‘liberal’)
In January, The Daily Caller also brought you a surreal, subtly cruel Common Core math worksheet. (RELATED: This Common Core math worksheet offers a glimpse into Kafkaesque third-grade hell)
January also brought a set of incomprehensible directions for nine-year-olds. (RELATED: Here’s another impossibly stupid Common Core math worksheet)
In December, Twitchy found the most egregiously awful math problem the Common Core had produced yet until that point. (RELATED: Is this Common Core math question the worst math question in human history?)
In November, Twitchy collected several more incomprehensible, unintentionally hilarious Core-aligned worksheets and tests. (RELATED: EPIC FAIL: Parents reveal insane Common Core worksheets)
Over the summer, The Daily Caller exposed a video showing a curriculum coordinator in suburban Chicago perkily explaining that Common Core allows students to be totally right if they say 3 x 4 = 11 as long as they spout something about the necessarily faulty reasoning they used to get to that wrong answer. (RELATED: Obama math: under new Common Core, 3 x 4 = 11 [VIDEO])
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They were fairly likely to count it wrong. It is not the government approved answer.
A conversation my niece and I were having on FB about common core at the college level just a few days ago:
My college professor was teaching us probability and we were going over median mode range etc.
It was the simplest stuff ever! Basically the mode was approximately 2.09 because we had to divide 11 into 23. The teacher told me I was “wrong” because 2.09 wasn’t a “friendly” answer. Then for an entire hour the class proceeded to find “friendlier” ways to solve the problem, when bottom line it’s simple division and the ONLY answer was 2.09.
My major is English and I am not happy at all about the common core standards for high school English. I wonder how it will be in a few years when I am actually a teacher. I can’t imagine not reading and learning the things I was able to in AP English in high school and common core would completely off-set what I’ve learned in college English the last 4 years.
English in particular would lose 70% of classic literature, which ties into what you are saying about creating talented individuals. Learning classic literature at an early age opens so many doors to reading on a more intellectual level, writing, and even involves culture and history, and without reading those books in high school, students would probably never read them.
In several articles I was reading they said that through common core English would involve reading “relevant” texts like the Gettysburg Address and “relevant” news.
“These standards are designed not to produce well-educated citizens but to prepare students to enter community colleges and lower-level jobs. All students, not just non-college-material students, are going to be taught to this lower standard.”
I went into teaching planning on going overseas to teach so hopefully that works out. For a while I was thinking high school wasn’t as bad as elementary, but after what I’ve been reading I’m not so sure. I worked at RP elementary and Winter Sun through the school system and I was appalled at the absolutely ridiculous ways they are taught!
Not only has education changed but school environments, particularly elementary are no place I’d want my child all day. It totally changed my perspective on why parents decide to home school vs public schools.
This crap is the result of Dr.’s of Education (Doctorate not PhD) attempting to implement the hare brained scheme that was the subject of their Thesis into a self fulfilling prophesy to establish themselves as “experts”. Knowledge is the only protection you have against “experts.” By corrupting knowledge our youth are at the mercy of our owners “experts”.
I don’t see an examples of Common Core for Trig, Algebra 2, and Calculus?
Are those numbers friendly ones or not? Guess we’ll have to wait for a pronouncement by Common Core’s High Priest of Bullshit.
My God, we are doomed.
We need to take the inventors and perpetrators of this garbage, and set them on an island away from innocent people.
“I don’t see an(y) examples of Common Core for Trig, Algebra 2, and Calculus?”
—-Mark
That’s because there are none. The people who wrote Common Core flunked all those courses, so they simply ignored them. And you forgot geometry.
A proper response to the question is a bit above the intellect of a second grader: “Until there is a common core calculator, cash register or gas pump, you can take your number sentences and shove them up your ass.”
You know, I’m forced to wonder what will happen the the human race when their capacity to think and reason is skewed in the manner that the modern education system dictates. Rudimentary rational though processes, rationalisation, innovation and cognitive skills will just collapse. The human race will just be dumbed down to paddock animals, like most of the gen-y phone hugging zombies out there now. Still, maybe that’s a good thing for when the next major global disaster occurs and wipes out these paddock animals, those left will be the ones worthy of survival, as nature intended from day 1.
Zombie – natural selection used to cull idiots from the gene pool ruthlessly.
Today, the idiots are not culled. They breed,and breed rapidly in comparison to the smart, and are supported in this by an ever increasing amount of free shit. It does not make sense, and it makes for an ever more stupid population.
The gene pool is in for a fucking.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjxBClx01jc
More Common Core backlash:
2+2=What? Parents rail against Common Core math
An Iowa woman jokingly calls it “Satan’s handiwork.” A California mom says she’s broken down in tears. A Pennsylvania parent says it “makes my blood boil.”
What could be so horrible? Grade-school math.
As schools around the U.S. implement national Common Core learning standards, parents trying to help their kids with math homework say that adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing has become as complicated as calculus.
They’re stumped by unfamiliar terms like “rectangular array” and “area model.” They wrestle with division that requires the use of squares, slashes and dots. They rage over impenetrable word problems.
Stacey Jacobson-Francis, 41, of Berkeley, California, said her daughter’s homework requires her to know four different ways to add.
“That is way too much to ask of a first grader,” she said. “She can’t remember them all, and I don’t know them all, so we just do the best that we can.”
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Simple arithmetic isn’t so simple anymore, leading to plenty of angst at home. Even celebrities aren’t immune: The comedian Louis C.K. took to Twitter recently to vent about his kids’ convoluted homework, writing that his daughters went from loving math to crying about it.
Adopted by 44 states, the Common Core is a set of English and math standards that spell out what students should know and when. The standards for elementary math emphasize that kids should not only be able to solve arithmetic problems using the tried-and-true methods their parents learned, but understand how numbers relate to each other.
“Part of what we are trying to teach children is to become problem solvers and thinkers,” said Diane Briars, president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. “We want students to understand what they’re doing, not just get the right answer.”
That’s a radically different approach than many parents are accustomed to.
Jennie Barnds, 40, of Davenport, Iowa, was puzzled by her fourth-grade daughter’s long division homework, a foreign amalgam of boxes, slashes and dots with nary a quotient or dividend in sight.
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“If we are sitting there for 20 minutes trying to do a simple problem, how is an 8, 9, 10-year-old supposed to figure it out?” she said. “It’s incredibly frustrating for the student and the parent.”
Whether Common Core itself is responsible for the homework headaches is a contentious issue.
Some experts say Common Core promotes reform math, a teaching method that gained currency in the 1990s. Derided as “fuzzy” math by critics, reform math says kids should explore and understand concepts like place value before they become fluent in the standard way of doing arithmetic. Critics say it fails to stress basic computational skills, leaving students unprepared for higher math.
Stanford University mathematician James Milgram calls the reform math-inspired standards a “complete mess” — too advanced for younger students, not nearly rigorous enough in the upper grades. And teachers, he contends, are largely ill-prepared to put the standards into practice.
“You are asking teachers to teach something that is incredibly complicated to kids who aren’t ready for it,” said Milgram, who voted against the standards as part of the committee that reviewed them. “If you don’t think craziness will result, then you’re being fundamentally naive.”
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Common Core supporters insist the standards are developmentally appropriate and driven by research.
“For years there has been a raging debate in mathematics education about which is more important, procedural fluency or conceptual understanding. The obvious answer is ‘both’ and the standards give that answer,” said University of Arizona mathematician Bill McCallum, who co-wrote the math standards.
Common Core advocates acknowledge parents are frustrated, but blame the problems on botched implementation, insufficient training or poorly written math programs that predate Common Core.
They say schools also need to communicate better.
“The homework can appear ridiculous when it is taken out of context — that’s where the biggest problem lies,” said Steve O’Connor, a fifth-grade math teacher in Wells, New York. “Parents don’t have the context, nor have they been given the means to see the context.”
O’Connor has set up a website in an effort to reduce parents’ frustration over homework. Other school districts have held workshops for parents to learn alongside their children.
But many parents say they’ve been on their own, complaining that districts have foisted new math curricula with little explanation.
In Pennsylvania, which signed on to the national Common Core in 2010 but developed its own version, Allison Lienhard said homework sessions with her 10-year-old have ended in tears.
“She gets frustrated because I can’t do it the way they are supposed to do it,” Lienhard said. “To me, math is numbers, it’s concrete, it’s black-and-white. I don’t understand why you need to bring this conceptual thing into math — at least not at this age.”
http://news.yahoo.com/2-2-parents-rail-against-common-core-math-060635222.html
Just stumbled across this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=g2QGiGqz-xs
UNBELIEVABLE !!
Do you Americans REALLY teach this way.
God help you all.