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2014-04-05 Government

Kansas Senate passes school finance bill stripping funding for Common Core standards

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Posted by Fred 2014-04-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Bully for you Kansas. Now outlaw teachers' unions...

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-04-05 04:10|| 2014-04-05 04:10|| Front Page Top

#2 From what I've seen on the net Common Core math teaches algorithms for solving arithmetic problems that are mathematically correct but also inefficient and needlessly complicated.

Unfortunately CC insists that the students do apply these algorithms and document the process.

The focus is on bad algorithms, not results or good algorithms.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2014-04-05 08:26|| 2014-04-05 08:26|| Front Page Top

#3 EH2660 sums it up nicely, if you have not had the courtesy of trying to teach your kids that closeness in math is not OK.

Grom, we are moving in the right direction; the education womps have their tamborenes out and banging; if we can undo Sebelius' Court then maybe we can attract business again. She was the crap tenant who on her last day went and hid candy bars all over the place and now we have an ant problem.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-04-05 09:55|| 2014-04-05 09:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Kansas is a right to work state, teachers do not Have to join the union and many do not.

Posted by bman 2014-04-05 11:39|| 2014-04-05 11:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Its a bit like this.

Q: 24 + 26 = ?

The answer is forty-ish. Then go and bring together the 4 and 6, and add that to the 40ish, to get fifty.

If you learn your 25s, or column add, you know the answer is not close to 40ish.

So what goes on is the smart kids get dulled because they are doing extra steps which are unnecessary with just some fundamentals. The dull kids are being outsmarted by the process and with no failure allowed they will learn enough Pavlovian math to pass but will be cheated of actually learning the basics*. The uninterested kids will be uninterested because their family never taught them to be interested in learning.

*this has implications later in life, as making quick change, $0.68 out of a dollar is..., finance and investment become a second or third tier of thinking. That is, so long as the CC/EBT clears then so what?

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-04-05 12:17|| 2014-04-05 12:17|| Front Page Top

#6 There are some things in life that simply must be memorized. Basic math is one of those things.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-04-05 12:28|| 2014-04-05 12:28|| Front Page Top

#7 Grom, we are moving in the right direction

Not fast enough. Me and the ex enrolling my kid in a democratic school---at least they don't practice ritalin as cure all.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-04-05 12:35|| 2014-04-05 12:35|| Front Page Top

#8 Wise move g(r)om. Hopefully the paternal mtDNA inheritance won't counterbalance your good efforts. ;-)

Posted by Besoeker 2014-04-05 13:35|| 2014-04-05 13:35|| Front Page Top

#9 Gaan kak!

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-04-05 14:10|| 2014-04-05 14:10|| Front Page Top

#10 The New New Math, brought to you by the same people who failed to teach your kids to read.

Posted by SteveS 2014-04-05 15:19|| 2014-04-05 15:19|| Front Page Top

#11 Geez this stuff is giving me nightmares. I was a victim of one of the earlier excursions into "New Math" when I was in 7th & 8th grade (circa 1961). The texts (and I use the term loosely) were thin paper backs and the only thing I recall is that they were really big oon Venn diagrams for everything.

Took me 10 years to get over it.

Posted by AlanC 2014-04-05 19:22|| 2014-04-05 19:22|| Front Page Top

#12 Tom Lehrer's New Math seems required at this juncture.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-04-05 21:47|| 2014-04-05 21:47|| Front Page Top

#13 I was a victim...

Me, too. Cheap paperback texts from the School Mathematics Study Group (SMSG). We learned set theory and how to convert numbers from base 6 to base 8. I loved it! Not so much Ms. O who taught a split 5th/6th grade class and was horrified to realize *none* of her 5th graders could do long division.

Posted by SteveS 2014-04-05 23:12|| 2014-04-05 23:12|| Front Page Top

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