re: Do They Still Teach Common Core Math In School? And What Is The Point Of It?

quote:

---

he way that good math thinkers perform calculations without realizing it.

---

Jesus this sounds like a load of bullshite. Read the book "How Not To Be Wrong".

quote:

---

Is there a math teacher on the board who can explain the point of this?

---

The point is to teach multiple solutions to mathematical problems, instead of working the same way over and over. Many mathematical equations have multiple solutions. This example teaches that multiples of 10 can be broken down simply and quickly rather than just relying on memorization of multiplication tables.

Exactly. Teach a kid that 243 = 3x3x3x3 = 81x3 = 27x9 instead of memorizing multiplication tables above 7

You're so mean

quote:

---

The point is to teach multiple solutions to mathematical problems, instead of working the same way over and over. Many mathematical equations have multiple solutions. This example teaches that multiples of 10 can be broken down simply and quickly rather than just relying on memorization of multiplication tables.

---

Even as a kid that was already in my head. 10 x 30 obviously equaled 300 and so on. I use to make Bs & Cs on my test because I wouldn't show the work, but I would argue what was the point as long as I provide the answer.

If I get the answer correct, why does it matter how I do it?

quote:

---

Exactly. Teach a kid that 243 = 3x3x3x3 = 81x3 = 27x9 instead of memorizing multiplication tables above 7

---

I would do 27x10, then subtract 30, then add 3 in my head (for 27x9). Different route, same destination)

Common core math is great for teaching higher level thinking in pk through 4th.

After that, math is the same math it’s always been.

There is nothing wrong with higher level thinking. We should be encouraging it.

I have a weird problem with common core. I’m left handed, but like most left handed people I’m actually cross dominant (I.e I’m right handed at some tasks, left handed at others.....but I write left handed).

As an adult I’m a engineer with as much earning potential as I’ll ever need, and as a kid my best subject by far was math.

But, I have never been able to write for endurance, my left hand tires quickly when writing (endurance and strength I’m right handed, coordination I’m left handed). I was always a straight C student in English, mostly I got legit tired of writing. Always an A student in math where I can pump out a few numbers and reliably get the right and answer.

Any math class where “explaining” via written language how you got a problem is most of the grade, is going to hurt kids like I was.

Let alone if they insist on having only right handed desks in school....

quote:

---

There is nothing wrong with higher level thinking. We should be encouraging it.

---

I don't have a problem with higher level thinking. But it's math.

It just seems like it could discourage kids from math even more, if they are not that good at it. If they really want to teach math effectively, they should do so by applying to something they can relate to.. A lot of people think "why do we learn this, we will never use it again", but we know that isn't true.

We use math every day without even knowing it, but if they knew how it could be applied to do more then that is an even more helpful tool than having them just look at it as numbers.

This is the first time I have ever seen pro common core understanding. Good job people.
Common core is a set of topics to learn, how that is achieved is up to the teacher.

This new math is not common core math, it’s just math that has been proven to give its users a better concept of the subject