sipowicz
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I could use some help with my Dino's 1st grade math...and whoever came up with this should be repeatedly kicked till he's dead.
Any NASA scientists here?
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boatme99
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Obfusticating.
What the hell!!!????
I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night but that beats heck out of me. lee
A number sentence is what the composer of that test should have to serve following conviction for whatever crime is involved here. I am sure there must be one.
And I don't think first grade students should be learning about number bonds. Those words don't belong in the same sentence unless you are figuring out how much it will cost to bail someone out of jail.
And I don't think first grade students should be learning about number bonds. Those words don't belong in the same sentence unless you are figuring out how much it will cost to bail someone out of jail.
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Take the zero and move on.
'New Math' about ruined me....
I was a complete failure at math, going to first grade in 1961 and I think the 'New Math' came on a few years later. after many years when I had forgotten what I "learned", I did very well in math and had a good career as a mechanical designer.
I was a complete failure at math, going to first grade in 1961 and I think the 'New Math' came on a few years later. after many years when I had forgotten what I "learned", I did very well in math and had a good career as a mechanical designer.
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"Show making ten........"
WHAT THE......
WHAT THE......
Arik
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Omg that common core nonesense! If this becomes country wide say goodbye to the last 300 year. ...permanently. it's designed to make robots. There is one exercise where 3 kids have to solve a problem. You fail if you disagree. It doesn't matter if the answer is wrong only matters that everyone agreed on the answer
boatme99
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"Show making ten........"
WHAT THE......
I can make 1, and I can make 2. What the heck is 10?
BrianE
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My son has the same kind of home work... one time I had to Google it lol...... bad enough it's been 28 years and I can barely remember last week, but where's the normal mathematics that I learned? [emoji57]
model70hunter
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It is asked funny, sort of like a dyslexic typed it up or perhaps Lou Costello. What was to hard to say this is the number 10, - or subtract 8 to equal 2.
Are our children being rewired?
Are our children being rewired?
Mcwsky09
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Normal mathematics? I got a perfect score on the Calculus AP test in high school and took more calculus in college and have had to write code to distinguish between percentage markup versus percentage profit and account for rounding when calculating unit price from extended price and having everything come back out right when you multiply the results taking into account rounding that may have occurred. I was also a math tutor in high school - and even helped my wife with her parenteral feeding calculations when she got her pharmacy tech certification - and some of the math homework the kids have these days kinda baffles me.
Are they deliberately trying to produce students that can't do math? What an idiotic way to teach!
shouldazagged
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I got out of rocket science after I designed the early Vanguards. The ones that blew up sixteen inches off the launch pad.
And that was the OLD math.
And that was the OLD math.
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Who is coming up with this ****!
They should be taken out and beaten with a fan belt. I volunteer in our local elementary school and I see this all the time.
Last week it was genetics in 5th grade- similar unit to the genetics in my high school biology, but covered in half the time. Genes, alleles, dominant and recessive traits, punnett squares, great stuff but covered in one week with kids who had no context, no foundation for it.
And the teachers just totally sweating it cause it's all covered on the end of grade tests, which is apparently a big part of their evaluation.
It's really an awful thing.
They should be taken out and beaten with a fan belt. I volunteer in our local elementary school and I see this all the time.
Last week it was genetics in 5th grade- similar unit to the genetics in my high school biology, but covered in half the time. Genes, alleles, dominant and recessive traits, punnett squares, great stuff but covered in one week with kids who had no context, no foundation for it.
And the teachers just totally sweating it cause it's all covered on the end of grade tests, which is apparently a big part of their evaluation.
It's really an awful thing.
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quneur
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Rec (2! til 16)
Let the common core 'math' people chew on that.
Let the common core 'math' people chew on that.
Maddog 521
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What's the number 16 for? Where does that go?
I wonder what number 7 is?
Must take a lot of time drawing those circles. Do they get graded on the circles?
I wonder what number 7 is?
Must take a lot of time drawing those circles. Do they get graded on the circles?
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Arik
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Yes they are. Why is it so hard to write 10-8=2? Because when you get into more complicated math with longer numbers the answers actually start to change.
Bill Gates . I'm not kidding. -when the tests are aligned with the common core standards the curriculum will line up as well.- Bill Gates
Go on youtube and search Common Core. It's frightening.
vigil617
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I think Sip is having one over on us, boys. No way is that a first-grade math problem.
That is, unless his son takes after his mother in the smarts department -- judging by the school he is attending!
That is, unless his son takes after his mother in the smarts department -- judging by the school he is attending!
