How to Add, According to Common Core
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My common core math,
Teaching to the test = fail.
Although, IMHO, the Social Studies system is the worst disaster to befall the American education system in the last hundred years. It attempts to combine a number of different fields into a cohesive lesson plan...and fails mightly. As a historian, I find it offensive. As a student, I found it tedious. And as a taxpayer, I find it yet another indicator that schools are fundamentaly focused on the wrong metrics for measuring success.
Teaching to the test = fail.
Although, IMHO, the Social Studies system is the worst disaster to befall the American education system in the last hundred years. It attempts to combine a number of different fields into a cohesive lesson plan...and fails mightly. As a historian, I find it offensive. As a student, I found it tedious. And as a taxpayer, I find it yet another indicator that schools are fundamentaly focused on the wrong metrics for measuring success.
I just read an article that several states have dropped common core. My niece is a teacher, she has nothing good to say about common core.
I feel rather more stupid for having watched that...
Seriously, if you were writing a satire about education, you couldn't come up with something that inane. Only American bureaucrats...
Seriously, if you were writing a satire about education, you couldn't come up with something that inane. Only American bureaucrats...
Educational initiatives seem doomed to bureaucratic boondoggles, whether it is Common Core or No Child
Left Behind. Graduate programs in education have veered too far from expecting their students to have
a depth in an actual subject like history or math. Education texts at the graduate level are absurdist tracts
in rephrasing the obvious, or expanding endlessly on small ideas that could be summed up in a sentence.
People blame the other guy's political point of view, but it is more the lack of value placed on the life of
the mind and study itself. As the great designer Milton Glaser says, what a teacher teaches is a way of
looking at the world. You can't package that and pound it down peoples' throats through the Department
of Education. It's an act of faith, really, and you can't test it with a test, finally.
Left Behind. Graduate programs in education have veered too far from expecting their students to have
a depth in an actual subject like history or math. Education texts at the graduate level are absurdist tracts
in rephrasing the obvious, or expanding endlessly on small ideas that could be summed up in a sentence.
People blame the other guy's political point of view, but it is more the lack of value placed on the life of
the mind and study itself. As the great designer Milton Glaser says, what a teacher teaches is a way of
looking at the world. You can't package that and pound it down peoples' throats through the Department
of Education. It's an act of faith, really, and you can't test it with a test, finally.
9+6 is way to hard to grasp. Let's simplify it by adding 5 more components to the problem.
To quote Winston Smith: 2+2=4.
To quote Winston Smith: 2+2=4.
This makes me afraid to go back to school and get my associates... will I have to relearn how to do simple math? This also seems like it takes more time to do problems. I can see a simple 'quiz' taking at least half a class to take, when in my school days it was probably a ten minute thing.
Let's get back to basics. If you can't calculate cube roots in your head you're a moron and you should be euthanized before you multiply. Simple.
Conceptually, thinking in base 10 makes sense. I was taught the concept of base number counting, be it 2, 3, 8, etc in the 3rd grade. I somehow don't think that is currently happening. My general regard for the current state of education in this country, is fairly low, from grade school to university.
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