Bill gates started this common core bs in schools

Z A C K said:
Many of us could be multi-billionaires?
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Bill Gates is so rich, he can walk up to to 2-3 Billionare Donald Trump and say, "I am literally better than you. I get to play with your toupee. I'm going to make love to this toupee with your wife and then put it back on your head when I'm finished." He's the only American who can do that because he has what, 50-60 billion dollars?
 
sharkboy1200 said:
Bill Gates is so rich, he can walk up to to 2-3 Billionare Donald Trump and say, "I am literally better than you. I get to play with your toupee. I'm going to make love to this toupee with your wife and then put it back on your head when I'm finished." He's the only American who can do that because he has what, 50-60 billion dollars?
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$76 Billion net worth.
 
Z A C K said:
$76 Billion net worth.
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Wow, I wonder if her ever thought about giving a billion to some random shmuck. Just to see what he'd do with it. That person shouldn't be good with money, so we could all enjoy the show. Actually, this would make for a sweet reailty TV show.
 
Sounds like you guys found a bogeyman to me. Keep fighting that intelligent fight.
 
aceattorney said:
I'm not interested in watching a 1+ hour powerpoint presentation right now. Be concise about what your problem with Common Core is.
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Never said i had a problem with it, just wanted to give you some info on it. Besides if you didn't take the time to look at the info i linked why would i take the time to write out my thoughts on the matter?
 
morfeeis said:
Besides if you didn't take the time to look at the info i linked why would i take the time to write out my thoughts on the matter?
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Because the former would take an hour and the latter would take 5-10 mins.
 
If this is common core in action...

http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/common-core-parent-facebook-post-indiana-school-181841158.html

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A Facebook update from a father frustrated with the Common Core math program at his son's school is making the Internet rounds after the father Jeff Severt expressed (via what looks like a kid's homework assignment) how convoluted the teaching approach is.

The worksheet posted to Facebook shows the elaborate Common Core (CC) formula for solving a math problem (as opposed to the simple strategy of subtracting the smaller number from the larger one). It instructs the student to explain why a fictional kid named "Jack" should be using common core strategies to solve the problem: “Jack used the number line below to solve 427 - 316. Find his error. Then write a letter to Jack telling him what he did right, and what he should do to fix his mistake.”
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In December, an outspoken mother testified at the Arkansas Board of Education that the Common Core program overcomplicated simple math problems. As an example, she gave the board a basic fourth-grade division problem which CC requires students to solve by using 108 steps. [/b]
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Yeah, Im seeing crap like that with my kids. My son had math homework and it was simple addition like that and they over complicated it to such a degree that it was frustrating to try and help him. Then I showed him the "right" way to solve the problems (again, simple addition) and he got an F on the assignment.The goal was not to get the answers right, it was to estimate a close answer....
I think they just want to make us look stupid to our children so that they can force whatever crap down the kids throats they want and the kids wont listen to anything else the parents have to say. They will believe in the almighty govt, and the almighty govt alone.....
 
Z A C K said:
Because the former would take an hour and the latter would take 5-10 mins.
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meh, information gathering takes time. it's about effort.

My kids will go to private school, so i couldn't careless about cc (well until they have to take college entry exams which i understand will be based on CC) parents are screwed.
 
CC has to do with teaching students to understand the logic behind math. My wife is a grade school teacher and she says that due to the fact that students are only taught the result, and not the logic and premise behind simple mathematical equations, they cannot solve more complex equations.

CC addresses this by giving students the fundamental logic behind math, which many of us take for granted, quite frankly.

As a teacher, my wife is a big proponent of CC.
 
aceattorney said:
CC has to do with teaching students to understand the logic behind math. My wife is a grade school teacher and she says that due to the fact that students are only taught the result, and not the logic and premise behind simple mathematical equations, they cannot solve more complex equations.

CC addresses this by giving students the fundamental logic behind math, which many of us take for granted, quite frankly.

As a teacher, my wife is a big proponent of CC.
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Have you seen some of the cc math problems?
 
Wait, so the CC stuff is that turning subtraction problems into addition problems?

In that case, I see no harm in it.
 
Oh, God forbid that educators actually be required to earn their paychecks. I've a man that works for me that went through 12 years of public school, was never held back once, is fifty years old and functionally illiterate. Doesn't surprise me. The highschool I attended was run like an over grown kindergarten. God! I think the students loved the place. You needed two years of prep school after attending the place, just to pass the entrance exams to any kind of technical college. The curriculum was watered down so much, it was hardly more than occupational therapy for morons.
 
BDaddyK said:
What?
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In the problem you posted, instead of doing 427 - 316 the "right" way, the CC thing (at least I think) is saying to think about it as an addition problem instead.

316 + 4 = 320
320 + 80 = 400
400 + 27 = 427

4 + 80 + 27 = 111

Now, for this problem, it doesn't make much of a difference because there's no borrowing in the subtraction problem, so it's easy anyway. However, for problems where you have to borrow, which can be difficult for kids, they teach you to do it this way. Addition is much easier than subtraction.

It's just a different way of thinking about it. I know a lot of cashiers do this every day because it's simply easier when making change.
 
News flash though people, in the real world, we use calculators and computers.
 
Bill Gates started Microsoft, the best company in the world. Anything he did after that came with a free pass.
 
Dark Helmet said:
Yeah, Im seeing crap like that with my kids. My son had math homework and it was simple addition like that and they over complicated it to such a degree that it was frustrating to try and help him. Then I showed him the "right" way to solve the problems (again, simple addition) and he got an F on the assignment.The goal was not to get the answers right, it was to estimate a close answer....
I think they just want to make us look stupid to our children so that they can force whatever crap down the kids throats they want and the kids wont listen to anything else the parents have to say. They will believe in the almighty govt, and the almighty govt alone.....
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The pubic school system is such a broken POS. I remember one year one math teacher showed us how to solve a math equation and it was simple I think it was like a whole 3 steps to get the right answer. Well the net year in math class a different teacher showed us how to do the same work but his way involved more f***ing steps.

Everyone in class said we learned this last year and all that ass hole said after we showed him you get the same answer with less steps was if you do it that way I will mark all your answers wrong I don't care if the other way gives you the right answer. WTF bitch both ways give you the right damn answer one was just quicker and more simple.

I mean the answer is f***ing right or god damn wrong who f***ing cares how I got there. If I do ever have a kid and I hope I never do the f*** if I will send to them public school.

School makes me laugh how we learn things just for the sake of learning them then nobody knows how to get a f***ing job or they don't have any job skills when school is over.
 
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