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re: (Not Common Core)-- Why are they teaching math this way?
Posted on 2/9/15 at 12:43 pm to LNCHBOX
Posted on 2/9/15 at 12:43 pm to LNCHBOX
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Is there supposed to be a point to this statement besides the joke? Or is every word your kid uses besides subtrahend 5 letters or less?
The point is the word was not taught as a vocabulary word. The meaning was not taught in class. He is not expected to read words for his grade level greater than 5 letters currently. So if you teach kid "6 minus 4 is 2" or "take 4 away from 6 and you have 2" or "what number do you take from 4 to get 2?" why put subtrahend on the test?
And although I understand those saying it never hurts to teach proper terminology, what is improper about number, value, digit, integer, whole number, etc?
When will you ever need to solve for subtrahend outside of the first 3 grade levels? You will solve for one of the above terms even if the process calls for subtraction.
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Posted on 2/9/15 at 12:44 pm to Bleeding purple
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The point is the word was not taught as a vocabulary word. The meaning was not taught in class. He is not expected to read words for his grade level greater than 5 letters currently. So if you teach kid "6 minus 4 is 2" or "take 4 away from 6 and you have 2" or "what number do you take from 4 to get 2?" why put subtrahend on the test?
I had lots of words on tests that weren't also vocab words for me. Strange.
Posted on 2/9/15 at 12:56 pm to Bleeding purple
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The point is the word was not taught as a vocabulary word. The meaning was not taught in class.
His teacher either made a mistake, has faults, is generally bad, or he didn't listen. In any of those instances, teach him the meaning. But I agree, it's probably one of the first three out of those four choices, and that's hard to deal with- it's an unreal expectation and one of the major reasons the education system sucks. The kids don't know what it means. Most parents don't know what it means. And the teacher doesn't teach the meaning of it because she's never done it before and wasn't told to do so. The kids with parents who explain it are well off. The kids who don't have parents who do homework with them are either smart enough to figure out the most algebra on their own or screwed.
Posted on 2/9/15 at 1:00 pm to Bleeding purple
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The point is the word was not taught as a vocabulary word. The meaning was not taught in class.
Are you sure of this? That doesn't make very much sense.
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When will you ever need to solve for subtrahend outside of the first 3 grade levels? You will solve for one of the above terms even if the process calls for subtraction.
When will I ever use differential equations in my profession? Answer is never. Yet somehow it was still required of me to pass that class.
Posted on 2/9/15 at 1:20 pm to Bleeding purple
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When will you ever need to solve for subtrahend outside of the first 3 grade levels?
Watch this:
12-_=5
12-x=5
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