muffin men are going to destroy SS imo`

if i get cut i'll be posting at least twice as much on tftv as i already am

i guess take that as you will

crazy good GF gonna be ruined by map 3

if zambler is demo, then no they dont

poorly written questions can have more than one correct answer

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ldlc > nip

go all in boys

i guess they have lowered admission standards over the last couple of decades

This is the dumbest reason i've ever heard for being anti-Common Core.

yeah the average person really helped fly us to the moon

there are geniuses in every generation who go far beyond what is taught in elementary school. In that era the focus was on space flight, now it's computing and medical tech. We're transitioning into energy tech right now and there's a resurgence of interest in space. The average person does nothing to contribute to any of that. However, we can attempt to make the average person smarter in their day to day life by getting them away from rote memorization.

So you think that memorizing tables and taking timed tests is the better way of learning basic arithmetic? Because that's what we all did as kids. Maybe you were super smart and you learned how to think about that in a correct way, but let me tell you that most kids do not make the proper connections when they have to do that. They become great information regurgitators but they do not become great learners

This is exactly the wrong thinking. The people who do high level math have history with this. Don't look at it as someone who's taken 3 semesters of college calculus (if this is high level math), look at it as if you're a kid who's never seen subtraction before. Learning it the way that Common Core is showing you is the way you're probably subconsciously doing now. The difference is that they're actually teaching it that way rather than throwing times tables at you till you've internalized every combination of numbers you'll need to put together. They're teaching kids to think, not to regurgitate.

http://i.imgur.com/7ozbVS6.jpg

The whole minus the part, as Null said. Literally 6-5. The reason that the whole is in a cup and the part is shown in units is because they don't want kids to just look at the two and see that the whole has one more. They want the student to actually do the work of counting down from the whole to get the final answer. That helps alleviate problems that kids run into when they start adding/subtracting 3+ digit numbers and arent able to do quick mental comparisons anymore.

http://i.imgur.com/4tFkh7u.jpg

This one is pretty self explanatory. 8-6 is 2. Again, they want you actually visualize units so you dont just think in abstractions. The abstraction comes later when the mind is less focused on the concrete (usually around late elementary or early junior high)

http://i.imgur.com/GOpVI5d.jpg

If you dont get this one youre just dumb idk how to help you

http://i.imgur.com/JlrMrE9.jpg

Same

http://i.imgur.com/8NDyfYA.jpg

Same thing as #1. You're given that there are 8 in the whole and you know there are 4 in the hand on the left. It's forcing the kid to actually do the math rather than compare by sight.

http://i.imgur.com/T2ncCnb.jpg

Pretty simple.

http://i.imgur.com/ZEPdYaw.jpg

This is a typo, should be addition, unless they're renaming terminology more than I thought (Common Core does rename some mathematical terms which is what confuses a lot of parents. Neither way is necessarily right or wrong. The Common Core terminology falls more in line with what the terms actually do to the numbers, but I think it's kind of silly to change terminology that's been around for decades.

Will explain more if you're interested. I didnt teach Common Core nor was I taught how to teach it but I know enough about it that I can generally explain why they do what they do

It's the exact opposite. It's not taking shortcuts, it's making you do all the steps that you do in your head with math out on paper. There are kids who don't learn that subtraction is just inverse addition until middle school when they start learning algebra. This fixes that. Give me a minute and I'll explain the thinking behind some of these test questions. The reason people look at them and are confused is because they're not in the classroom learning the method.

Common Core is fine, people just hate it because it's different from what they learned. Its focus is on building blocks to the next idea. It's more focused on the way we do mental math than the way we were taught in schools. It requires a reasonable amount of training and teachers have to be open to it and not just blindly throw material at the students.

It won't catch on because people don't want to change from the way they did things.

wait you mean some people like to play more than one fucking video game thats such a weird concept