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Math is one of the absolutes of nature. However, our wonderful, liberal government is trying to change that. Here's a quote from a Foxnews article that sums it up:


This is idiocy in the 1st degree.

My daughters teacher didn't like it when I told here that I thought common core was one of the worst things that they could be teaching our kids.

How do these people have jobs.

2+1=1

& I can prove it


Mike

Yep.The old "New Math" mystified me.

I hope I can retire before these kids reach the University.

BTW, there is some real good news in education. Google up the Kahn Academy. Got kids, grandkids? Send them there. Better, TAKE them there (it is on line, and free).

I wonder if this new "common core math" will work with drawing odds and bonus point states.
Do you think I can explain the state of Utah how my 14 points is the highest number and I should draw a San Juan elk tag ?

It's called the teachers union.

I pretty much got run off after I kept saying the emperor had no clothes in meetings about all the "reforms" of college algebra, calculus et cetera. It's amazing how much educationalist bullshit keeps getting tried instead of what works, namely disciplined effort on the part of students.

It's what happens when you have liberal arts people defining technical education needs

http://www.eagleforum.org/about/glyn-wright.html

Last year there was a young high school woman as a contestant in the First Robotics competition I volunteer at wearing a t-shirt that said "Math is hard, so is life, get over it" She'll go far and then there will be the rest of the world that didn't work at mastering hard topics who complain it isn't fair she got ahead.

Remember Big Daddy Kane with Pimpin' Ain't Easy?

If I ever go back to teaching I should have a shirt made up with Big Daddy Newton: Calculus Ain't Easy.

But why would the administration want to properly teach kids? What they want are dumb people on the Govt dole that don't ask questions and just keep voting them back in. Life is good.

There's gov't money available if you pitch a good line of education bs to try, and grant money helps with tenure and promotion. "So and so got a quarter million for the department" and so on.

Next thing you know they won't be keeping score at kids' soccer games. Oh wait, they already do, so as not to hurt anybody's feelers.

So no matter what the score!!!! if you think you won.. you win Just great!!!!!So I killed a little 8 point buck a few years back!!!!
If he would have lived for a few more years he would have been a Booner. Do you thank I could go ahead and enter him in the B&C record Books? He would have scored at least 216 net as a typical.

Postmodernism is what they call it.

Liberal Arts majors.....make half-way decent 'shoeshine boys'!! Twenty odd years ago when my son was entering college he came home and told me "Dad...would you believe that 50% of the freshmen entering college have to take 5th grade remedial reading courses?"

I told him "Yep...and you can bet your sweet Tu Tu that the college will accept every one of them because when they state "I wants ta go ta coledge"....that means that much more $$$$$ for the school!"

Profs have to have their $150 grand a year!!

Man,that would sure be sweet. Another instance where you don't have a clue what you are running your mouth about.

Teacher: Johnny, how did you come up with your answer on the math test that the sum of 5+5 is 11?

Little Johnny replies with, "real simple Teacher', then he holds up one of his hands and slowly starts counting backward from 10 each finger on that hand.

Little Johnny: 10,...9,...8,...7,...6,... and then I just added in the 5 fingers on my other hand and it equals 11.

Saw a Tee-shirt I really liked a while back;

"I'm an English Major- You Do the Math!"