Hehe, if you would've shown me this picture when I was younger, I would've agreed. However, now that I am old and grumpy, I don't really get people complaining about stuff such as Maths. It seems pretty logical to me now.
It's the curriculum that's being taught in public schools. The math is so twisted and convoluted that parents (and kids) don't have a clue as to how to do it! I wonder if it's not deliberate. Conservatives have been trying to get rid of it: Liberals want to keep it.
A couple of things that are involved in Common Core, in my view, are 1) the desire to take parents out of the equation since few parents will be able to help their children with Common Core homework; and 2) create a situation in a child's mind where the obvious answer is not always correct, making them more subject to propaganda. Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- George Orwell (1984)
I don't care about maths any longer because I came to the conclusion that maths are already old enough to resolve problems themselves, same as Planet Earth is old enough to claim for nannies that care for it!... hahaha Comment not suitable for grumpy dudes, I know
I don't really know how the situation in the USA is anymore, but here in Romania, the curriculum (at least in the Maths area) is pretty straightforward. I have recently volunteered to supervise and help poor children do their homework at a charitable daycare, and it seems that kids nowadays don't have any problems with Maths. At least most of them.
People are beginning to ask the wrong questions. Dumbing of our future generation. Perhaps, to evade any inevitable absolute truth. We should not allow that to happen. There's an old wise sage that speaks truth, "My people perish for lack of knowledge." Hosea 4:6. It shouldn't be this way.
The United States has been steadily falling behind the rest of the world in math and science. Common core will only make things worse. Young people are going into lifelong debt to take courses that don't teach them the skills to get a job.
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Sounds like Common Core Math is just another step in the conspiracy to dumb down America by those who want to destroy America and take it's power. This has been going on for a long time through media, video games like Grand Theft Auto, textbooks, etc. Where did the roots of Common Core math begin?
I agree with everything that has been said about common core. It's a nightmare! My grandsons all have it, and trying to help them with their math homework is impossible. I don't understand why they are making simple math so convoluted. It's really a waste of time in my opinion.