I’m sure by now you have seen the penciled note from a parent upset with how Common Core was convolving a simple math problem by making it so complicated that even an engineer could not only not answer it, but had difficulty figuring out what was even being asked.
This has been a common theme regarding Common Core. The money statement was this…
In the real world, simplification is valued over complication....
Ironically this same weekend I came across this third grade Common Core math problem…. and was stumped. Many of you out there are brighter than me…. Please, I beg you, enlighten me? There was no explanation accompanying this homework math problem and I have typed it just as it was……..
3) what do these numbers have in common? 135 468 24 2468 79 Clearly explain your answer.
Ladies and Gentlemen: this is David Coleman’s Common Core…. This is why your children will do poorly on the Smart Balanced Assessments coming to Delaware this May, and why your children and their teachers, and …. “white suburban moms who are upset their child is not as smart as they think he should be”…. will be blamed for the poor results…
No, we don’t have to do better in educating our children!. Yes! We do have to get rid of this most ridiculous curriculum that is far more at home in a Monty Python skit than being found inside our children’s classrooms.
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March 24, 2014 at 11:37 am
anonymous
1(2)3(4)5 4(5)6(7)8 2(3)4 2(3)4(5)6(7)8 7(8)9
The following digit is missing, within each grouping.
March 24, 2014 at 11:53 am
kavips
Well done. Pat yourself on the back!… You are Mensa material. (and as smart as a third grader!)
Next question: Why is this important? What’s the point of the question?
March 24, 2014 at 5:01 pm
anonymous
Kavips asks: Why is this important. What’s the point of the question?
Because what we needed were people who wouldn’t use the people’s environment as an industrial waste disposal site; who wouldn’t ‘permit’ hazardous waste tarp overs in flood zones, smokestacks to the sky; who wouldn’t then tax the people to clean it up, but search out the offenders instead. What we need are people who would tax the fossil fuel industry for continuing forced reliance on fossil fuels, who would give the fossil fuel tax monies directly via debit card, to the people for clean energy usage of their choice. What we need are people who would reward farmers who would eliminate chemicals by re nourishing farm fields with organic compost, minerals, sea weed, spraying rock dust on the fields, etc instead of harmful chemicals; who would end forest destruction and would immediately inoculate lands for forest growth around the world, (again with natural compost, mineral and massive aerial rock dust spraying, for super regrowth, and CO2 elimination, climate change reduction.) We need people who would control senseless over population by not rewarding baby mamma/poppas for having countless babies they’ve proven themselves incapable of raising. We need people who would have such “parents” work and totally pay for such children (while the state arranges civilized care for said children.) (One can say ‘there are no jobs – but the truth is, there is plenty of work to be done.) We need people who wouldn’t ignore the needs of near future infrastructure, planned communities, mass public transportation, extreme recycling, extreme climate, pure drinking, swimming, fishing waters, nutritious food for all. (We need people who would eliminate deadly highways; who would see that the unemployed and near unemployable – are employed. Who would end wasted, drugged lives, deadly, dangerous towns; and make sure pedophiles aren’t roaming free to re-offend, as kids are latch keyed indoors for the duration of their childhoods; while politicians are free to double/triple dip and fail society. Kids, school systems as well as society, are taught to fail. (That’s not mentioning the world of a near billion living in horrendous poverty that is of course, adding to the world problems .) The world needs people who can think. Third graders who can look at the figures, figure out what the questions and answers are.
What’s not being said? What’s needed in order for seemingly random figures – to make sense? We need people to know what’s missing and where we’re headed. That’s what a bright educated third grader might do if given a chance – he might be caused to think. Have you ever thought about the lives of children, who were never allowed to think?
Instead as it stands now, those actual third graders, face a dismal future, if one at all.
The person who formulated the (math) problem, of course knew what was missing. Perhaps that person wanted a third grader (like myself) to need to think. What is the question? What is the answer? Why hasn’t someone told me what the question is, what the answer is? ( Ha.) Why don’t these numbers make sense? Something is missing. Something is missing. Oh, I see – if we revert to the natural order of things, we can solve this problem – and go on to the next.
In our present way of doing things, where is the human population headed? I don’t like the answer to that question. (Even though I might get an A – good little robot.)
We have been provided everything necessary for a glorious human life on an earth in balance, down to the minutest detail. But what have we done? Too many don’t know there is a problem, can’t even see what’s missing or where we are headed next. The numbers are going off all charts – rapidly towards extinction. (Why that’s a hoax, they’ll tell ya.)
We can only hope that there are some really brilliant third graders out there, who receive the education they will need. Let’s see, by the time a third grader graduates from college, it’ll be 2027. The real question is, what will his world be like.
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