I'm failing 1st grade math

[encorehunter]

I used to think I was half way decent at math. Now that I am helping my 7 year old, I am seeing problems I help him with marked wrong. I hate this new math.

[ray1970]

Ugh. I remember some of that new math when my kids were little.

Some of it was utterly stupid.

I told my son not to do an assignment once and then went and had a nasty talk with the teacher. The problems were so simple you could just look at it and know the answer but the way they wanted him to solve them took a full page and fifteen minutes per problem.

I wasn?t raising any government workers. I don?t need my kids being taught the most inefficient way to solve a simple problem.

[MrPrena]

Dear K-12, undergrad, grad schools.

Just teach the damn normal math like:

Algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus,
Differential equation, linear algebra,complex variables,abstract algebra, partial differential equation crap!!
Do not teach us some alien andromeda galaxy math....

[20X11]

Confirms for me that teachers are way overpaid.

[MrPrena]

Predator (alien) arithmetic and numbers.

[Duman]

Ok, color me stupid. How is #7 wrong? 3 - 10 = -7

[Grant H.]

Without seeing the context of the math problem it's hard to see what they are pushing for, but every other example of "new math" that is being taught (even into highschool) is just mind numbingly stupid.

[BushMasterBoy]

Your kid is right. .gov employee is wrong. I decode alien math all the time. Some of it takes months to figure out. I know a lot here think I am just telling fibs. Official .gov link below...

https://www.nsa.gov/Portals/70/docum...errestrial.pdf

[def90]

WTF? 7 = 10-3

I don't see what angle they could be reaching for that would make 7 = 3-10 true..

[TheNash]

3 - 10 is -7
If you have 3 dollars and take away 10 dollars you are negative 7 dollars
No wonder the teachers are complaining about not being paid enough and they are broke. Since this is probably the way they balance their check book.