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re: (Not Common Core)-- Why are they teaching math this way?
Posted on 2/9/15 at 11:02 am to brgfather129
Posted on 2/9/15 at 11:02 am to brgfather129
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It isn't "more work than it is worth"...it is the natural progression of understanding basic computation.
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The foundation of mathematics.
It is a whole lot more work than what it is worth.
My math teacher used to tell me "how many routes are there that you could take to go from the school to your house?"....then she would say "as long as you are getting home, does it really matter which one of those routes you chose to get there?" ---pretty much, as long as we got the right answer, did it really matter how we did it?
Everyone and every child learns differently and this 'new' way is forcing them all to learn the same way....
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Posted on 2/9/15 at 11:03 am to TigerPox
Isn't it quite the opposite? It's teaching new and different ways to solve the problems, thereby reaching more kids.
Posted on 2/9/15 at 11:05 am to TigerPox
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It is a whole lot more work than what it is worth.
You can keep repeating this all you want, but you are out of your element. You have no idea how helpful these concepts are to children in general, let alone those who are struggling to get "basic facts" to make sense.
Posted on 2/9/15 at 11:08 am to TigerPox
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Everyone and every child learns differently and this 'new' way is forcing them all to learn the same way....
Not really; it's showing them several different methods for arriving at the same answer. My kids' homework might have several problems with a "new" way, then several problems with the directions, "Find the answer using grouping, doubles facts or a number line".
Posted on 2/9/15 at 11:09 am to TigerPox
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Everyone and every child learns differently and this 'new' way is forcing them all to learn the same way....
Do you have any idea how contradictory this statement is given what you are arguing against?
Posted on 2/9/15 at 11:20 am to TigerPox
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It is a whole lot more work than what it is worth.
Because you are and adult and presumably think of this as a basic operation. Try to remember when you were learning how to do these operations. It wasn't basic back then.
Some of yall act like you came out the womb knowing how to do math.
Posted on 2/9/15 at 11:23 am to TigerPox
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My math teacher used to tell me "how many routes are there that you could take to go from the school to your house?"....then she would say "as long as you are getting home, does it really matter which one of those routes you chose to get there?" ---pretty much, as long as we got the right answer, did it really matter how we did it?
This way is teaching you three different routes home, so you can find which way to get home best for you.
I've had the luxury of wading in with a first grader, rather than having it dumped on me with an older child, so I like it. I can get how older kids could be thrown off though. It should have been grandfathered in or something. But the concepts are all basically ways to do math in your head. They're teaching the different ways to solve problems I had to figure out myself under the old rote way.
Posted on 2/9/15 at 11:28 am to TigerPox
quote:Some ways of doing math are better than others when it comes to young children.
My math teacher used to tell me "how many routes are there that you could take to go from the school to your house?"....then she would say "as long as you are getting home, does it really matter which one of those routes you chose to get there?" ---pretty much, as long as we got the right answer, did it really matter how we did it?
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