answer this CC question ... !
these folks are nuts! . I have taught kids, and
this kind of question is stupid. . they hate
"word problems" !!! -- j
this kind of question is stupid. . they hate
"word problems" !!! -- j
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I tell you, I'm only half joking when i surmise that one of the purposes of CC is to make parents look dumb and futher drive a wedge between the children and the parents. "Look children, your folks don't know nothing. Come to us to learn what's what."
The point is not to focus on the answers but how to arrive at them correctly. That means a lot of repetition and practice. Also, if you substitute a couple of variables in there, you've got a real world problem for a bill of materials...
The wording of some of these questions is just insane. Not reasonable for real-world but overly and unnecessarily complex.
My daughter is a HS math teacher (her first year). If she's going to be receiving students taught with this claptrap, I really pity her.
Now I can do this because I'm used to playing that kind of logic game. But if you asked me to do that at the grade levels listed, I seriously doubt I could have done it.
Whoever wrote that curriculum, had never taught kids. And might even have forgotten what it's like to be a kid.
On the first question, either of two answers could have been correct depending on how you completed it. The final question reminded me of the sort of things they ask on that new game show "Idiotest".
Part of our advancement process is passing exams, a considerable amount of the questions are college level algebraic word problems. So far, I've aced every one of them. Yet in that disaster, I missed 2??
Of course, ours are written in a logical manner, not in Reverse Socialist Notation (twice removed).
the illegitimacy of this quiz!!! -- j
becoming more and more clever!!! -- j
That question is truly lame. It asks to compare the digits themselves, not the power of 10 they reside in. I guessed the answer should be 1, as in 1x7=7. If 0 was a choice, I would have picked that, as in no difference between those two digits at all. So now, based on the PC writer's English-as-a-second-language question, you could have three possible answers: 0, 1, 10.
This is "newspeak" math separating the generations and destroying our kids minds.
My kids are grown now, my grandkids are just starting college. That's even scarier, politically what they're going to get brainwashed into. At least they're in Eastern Washington where there are more responsible human beings than here in the West. The majorities (Seattle and Western Washington) however do not have the same opportunities to learn to think for themselves. That's what we need to be scared about.
I don't think my parents ever worried about what or how I was being taught, much the same as I really didn't worry too much about my children. I do worry for everyone today. It's actually another learning lesson for me how educators and want to be educators can influence youth.
My daughter is a HS math teacher. Her cousin graduated from SLU at the same time with a degree in "political science." Cousin is now in DC "teaching" inner-city kids as a "Teach for America" job. Now, she had no college courses in education, but she "knows" how to teach these inner-city kids. She spends 6 hrs each day focused on 3 students, sitting next to them in the classroom and helping them read assignments and complete their work. My daughter, on the other hand, has classes of 24+ students with all the various predilections of contemporary students (lack of discipline, phones/texting, disengaged parents, etc.). There were some interesting discussions over the Christmas break. Of course, my niece had "all the answers," while my daughter merely nodded politely. After the cousin's family left, we discussed this type of mentality. My daughter was as conservative as me to begin with, and now she is seeing what she will have to deal with in the education and political hierarchy. She's seriously thinking of moving to private school teaching.
much easier than about terrorist actions. -- j
THAT is the goal.
Honestly these are not hard, BUT, these questions are not presented in the correct way in my opinion. I understand the point of the question but the method does not teach the basic skills needed to come up with the answers, especially for a 3rd grader who probably does not have the basic skills to do algebra in their head.
Common core is really screwing people up. 1 - 9th grade should be drilling the basics of language writing and math. memorize the multiplication tables, and get good at it before trying to get people to use abstract thinking.