Ohio dad writes check to school using Common Core math

[NightHawkeye]

Fed-Up Dad Makes a Serious Point by Sending This Common Core Check to His Kid’s School | The Blaze

If they want to actually cash the check, officials at Melridge Elementary in Painesville, Ohio, will likely have to teach the bank teller how to figure out the cash amount using the Common Core way.​

 

[Nithavela]

Could anyone explain this to me?

The common core thingie, and how much that is.

 

[brinny]

Fed-Up Dad Makes a Serious Point by Sending This Common Core Check to His Kid’s School | The Blaze

If they want to actually cash the check, officials at Melridge Elementary in Painesville, Ohio, will likely have to teach the bank teller how to figure out the cash amount using the Common Core way.​

ROFLOLOL!!!!

 

[brinny]

Could anyone explain this to me?

The common core thingie, and how much that is.

 

[seashale76]

Could anyone explain this to me?

The common core thingie, and how much that is.

The Common Core are national curriculum standards put out by the US Department of Education. Before this, each state had their own curriculum standards. This was a move to bring the US in line with what other countries have done for a long time. They are guidelines for what students should know at each grade level, and once they graduate, they should be prepared to move on and be ready for college/university and the workforce. So far, all but eight states have adopted the Common Core.

Having never been a math teacher or a parent, I'm not sure what is Common Core and what isn't regarding the way they're teaching students to solve math problems now, however, I gather it is convoluted and controversial.

The Common Core Math Standards: http://www.corestandards.org/wp-content/uploads/Math_Standards.pdf

 

[Honey Parallel]

Used Common Core math!

I like that guy!

Fed-Up Dad Makes a Serious Point by Sending This Common Core Check to His Kid’s School | The Blaze

If they want to actually cash the check, officials at Melridge Elementary in Painesville, Ohio, will likely have to teach the bank teller how to figure out the cash amount using the Common Core way.​

 

[Honey Parallel]

Could anyone explain this to me?

The common core thingie, and how much that is.

"The new government mandated Common Core standards being implemented in public schools, private schools and homeschool curriculum...."

You can't even free yourself of this programming if you home school your child? Ah, comm...unism!

 

[brinny]

Used Common Core math!

I like that guy!

me too

 

[Nithavela]

No, could someone explain what those wriggles mean. What number is written on that cheque?

 

[CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN]

Usually in common core, they explain what things stand for. So kids can understand. He neglected to do that. I guess being a smart aleck. Or common core gets worse. I don't see the point.

 

[Nithavela]

So basically, you don't know what the numbers your children are taught to write mean?

 

[brinny]

More on Common Core.

 

[brinny]

Here's a shorter version of the above video...about 5 minutes:

 

[Darkhorse]

You can't even free yourself of this programming if you home school your child? Ah, comm...unism!

I taught my kids math at home - REAL math ..and my kids can do math...

 

[Audacious]

Common core doesn't tell you how to teach, it tells you what to teach. Which is completely different

This idea that you can write 'common core math' is fallacious at best, because that just is not how common core works.

 

[rambot]

A new way to learn something??? That's just as bad as learning something new. The teachers I know (and I know a couple dozen) ALL say that once you grasp common core, it's a way easier....ONCE you grasp it.

 

[Nithavela]

I have read up on this common core stuff, and I have to say that at least in theory, it looks viable. It seems a bit daft to introduce those things on a grand scale without testing them first.

 

[trunks2k]

Usually in common core, they explain what things stand for. So kids can understand. He neglected to do that. I guess being a smart aleck. Or common core gets worse. I don't see the point.

This is what annoys me. People like this guy complain about the way math is getting taught, but are completely missing the point. Kids are still shown the "normal" way to do math, but the other, "stupid", methods they are taught are done to help them understand WHY and HOW the "normal" math works. Older adults may not understand it because that's not how they were taught, but it does make sense.

There was one of those "look how stupid common core math is" things floating around a while ago. And on the surface, it didn't make any sense and did seem stupid. But, when I sat and looked at it, I could see it was essentially a re-wording of a way I was taught in grade school. The purpose of the exercise was not to be "this is how to solve a math problem" but "here's what is really going on, and why it works".​

 

[Arcangl86]

The Common Core are national curriculum standards put out by the US Department of Education.

Except they aren't. Common Core is a national standard, but the initiative to create and the final product were approved by the several states. It is true that the Federal Government does approve of these standards and is encouraging states to use them by including them in Race to the Top, but they are still state based standards.

 

[seashale76]

Except they aren't. Common Core is a national standard, but the initiative to create and the final product were approved by the several states. It is true that the Federal Government does approve of these standards and is encouraging states to use them by including them in Race to the Top, but they are still state based standards.

What's your point? Yes, there are state based standards. The Common Core are national standards, end of. Eight states still aren't with it, but it makes nothing I said untrue. The Common Core is exactly what I claimed.

I was a teacher. I used district based standards. I used state based standards. I used the Common Core. In the last school where I taught, we even took pains to align everything to the IB program (as it was an IB school). In the subjects I taught, I had no issues with the Common Core whatsoever. It aligned with the standards we were already using fairly well.

Here's how it worked before Common Core in my state. The state based standards trumped the district standards. The district standards had to align with the state standards and not the other way around. When the Common Core came along, the state standards were trumped by the Common Core.