Chicago Teaching style: 3x4=11 is ok

[theGinsue]

It's all part of the "Common Core" curriculum. Expect to see much more of this sort of teaching concept.

[Beprepared]

This is one of the main reasons we are leaving the state next year. We're moving back to Alaska, where the kids will be put in private school. Alaska was one of maybe three or four states that would not accept Common Core. Unfortunately the Governor signed the identical curriculum with common core crossed out. Bill Ayers and his pinko's have been in the back door of these few states slipping their garbage in. I wish I had the patients to home school.

[th3w01f]

"Common Core" is one of the main reasons Kat is doing the on-line public school with both kids this year.

Early last year our daughter was really struggling with a math assignment and I couldn't figure out why since she was already very good at the basics. We sat down to go over some subtraction and this is the type of problem we were presented with (this is from Everyday Math aka Chicago Math). http://www.nychold.com/em-arith.html

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I've always been very good at math but I had to look up multiple examples online to figure out what the hell they were doing.

[BigBear]

As a teacher... I have some horror stories I could pass on. But half of you wouldn't believe they are true. Half of this crap is thought up by administration who never spent time in a classroom, nor understand how a child grows both in concrete and abstract reasoning. The new core curriculum (is just a new name for old crap they've been trying to pass for years) is killing the education system quicker than anything and making the truly good teachers want to leave with the added "pay per performance" and all the other crap. As in everything, there are some good ideas, but very, VERY bad implementation...

Anyways, what do I know, I'm just a silly musician...

[Irving]

What is said in the video doesn't make sense because there is no way to explain how you arrived at 3x4=11, because 3x4 does not equal 11.

[muddywings]

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what the hell is that crap ^^^^
burn it, BURN IT!!!!

[SideShow Bob]

As a teacher,.....................If it is ture, thaen god heple us.

Let us hope you typed this last sentence sarcasticly............

[KestrelBike]

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I've always been very good at math but I had to look up multiple examples online to figure out what the hell they were doing.

What.The.Fuck.

[Gman]

Make it as confusing and convoluted as possible and they'll never learn self-reliance.

[jerrymrc]

What.The.Fuck.

This comes from the same people that taught all your (Insert retail store here) how to give you back your change. I was somewhere the other day and the bill came to $3:20. I handed her a 10 and said I think I have the 20 cents. I had a quarter and handed it to her.

It came back as (handing me the nickle) that is 3 and two makes five and five is ten handing the rest of the bills in order to me. I about fell out until I took a good look and realized that the gal behind the counter had a good bit of years over me. I thanked her for counting out the change and said it is a dying art. She just smiled.