Yay Common Core!

This is what happens when the Feds take over education.

Thanks for sharing your homework with us.

Holy shit that woman is stupid. Five groups of three is clearly different conceptually than three groups of five. You skip things like logical order of operations for a fast answer and when things get complicated you get the wrong answer because you skipped things.

If I was your boss and told your to separate a group of fifteen items into five groups of three and you separated them into three groups of five I would have to fire you for not following instructions.

It really does not seem like a hard concept for a person with normal synapse size and more then a few fucked up ganglion roaming around in their head, but trump supporters be the stupid.

No this is what happens when stupid parents try to be smart asses. Every time I hear one of these common core bitches I end up thinking the parent is a moron and the kids are probably better off listening to the teacher, and this is no exception. If you are incapable of understanding the point of what is being taught you are a fucking moron who is making their kid more stupid and you need to shut up and go back to screwing things up at your adult job because their idiot is obviously missing.

But what do you really think? Stop holding back. We're all friends here.

Or the state shouldn’t get involved and should stop dumbing down the educational system.

You can join your buddies who think you are a winner in time out, bye.

Does that include state governments that mandate teaching evolution as a "theory"? Should all kids be home-schooled? What do you suggest?

Evolution is a theory.

That would certainly explain you.

No need to get snippy. I won't be mean to you today.

It’s not the wrong answer.

I think you hit on the disconnect between the way math was taught to us (get the right answer: any understanding of the process is optional) and what the goal of common core math seems to be (getting a more rounded sense mathematics).

Honestly, I think having a class for the parents to understand how CC works would help to get more people on board, cuz even someone like myself, who was decent at math through Geometry gets a bit puzzled looking at my nephew's homework assignments sometimes.

First of all, you're not gonna be anyone's boss. You can't even manage yourself. And if you were employable, 5×3 would be over your pay grade. Idiot.

Common Core got whacked last year at my kid's school. Even the teachers hated it.

1.Evolution should be taught in schools.
2.Not all kids should be home schooled.

Bonus answer. I practically minored in Anthropology and study it quite often. I believe in evolution.

That's what the common core teaches, with the 5 being the first number, the correct method or order is that there are 5 groups of three each. The problem with this is that later on they are taught 3+5x3 = 18, but will think the correct answer is 24 because they are thinking that 3+5 is first then multiply by 3. And not only that, but common will teach that 5 groups of 3 is the same as 3 groups of 5. And that it has to be done in the order that is presented. I went through the whole common core teaching curriculum, it's pretty fucking stupid.

It’s not the wrong answer, it’s the wrong method and it’s fucking retarded.

I do as well. Some groups seem further along that chart though.

Do you know what 3 x 5 equals? How did you come to that conclusion, count your fingers, count apples, does it really matter?

Made me think of something someone posted on a different board, here's their posts, along with some of the answers they received.

And the responses.

Responses to the post about the calculators.

I agree. But math seems to be one of those subjects where "If it ain't broke, you gotta fiddle with it." That song was released in 1965. Just goes to show ya how TPTB can take a simple thing and fuck it up.

In the real world, how you arrive at the correct answer shouldn't matter. But because the test specified a particular method, this kid was probably going on intuition instead of precisely following the instructions. Enough stories like this may be the wedge that drives Common Core into oblivion. But God knows what TPTB will come up with next.

I'm not personally invested in this (my "kids" are over 40), but I'll have to check to see what kind of math my grandkids are dealing with.

Except... No? No Federal involvement.

This is again part of the problem that we've seen resulting from Republican efforts to de-fund education: an emphasis on getting the right answer in order to ace standardized tests, without an emphasis on thinking about why that answer is correct. If such critical thinking is not developed early enough, it can lead to issues understanding more complex math, etc. later in school.

For what it's worth, I was always taught to show my work on math exams, and we lost points for not showing our work. It helped us understand complicated mathematical concepts which built on the previous concepts. This is much better than teaching to a standardized test where you get to pick from four possible answers.