I Don’t Have Enough Time to Do It This Way
Less mind figure it out to begin with. I hope they’re not giving kids 75 problems for homework anymore, like we used to get. It’d take a week, with all the extra writing.
Common Core = No Common Sense pic.twitter.com/zmD3ma8bR3
— Sherry Lucas (@PorchPhilosophy) October 3, 2014
It’s also starting to look vaguely like the crap that they tried to foist on us in the ’60’s.
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October 3, 2014 9:29 am
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I remember that “addend, subtrahend, and difference” garbage back in the mid-seventies. Fortunately our teachers didn’t force us to use it.
[face palm]
oh good grief!
I’m trying to imagine Common Core kids in 30 years, standing in a grocery store trying to figure out which can of peas is cheaper, using this method. Not a pretty picture.
Julie,
Think about the cashiers…
This has to be exponentially harder to teach. Five steps vice two to solve?
This alone will kill us technologically. No math skills = no engineers. How do you go from this crap to calculus??
I think I need more context to make a judgement. If this is one in a series of steps to get young kids to understand subtraction so they can eventually do it “the old way,” then what’s the problem? Although if the idea is that kids will do it “the new way” always and forever, then that is a problem. But I somehow doubt that’s the situation.