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This video describes the main common core math hoax:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r40ZRax6lxg
The hoax is that Gates' committee had to find some difference between the present math pedagogy and the as-yet unwritten common core approach.
We taught that 10 is the number one unit larger than nine. We did not introduce the concept of "tens" vs. "ones" in second grade for Christ's sake. The only two mathematicians on the validation committee voted no on this and produce protest videos now on how developmentally inappropriate it is.
The education degrees on the committee were the ones who came up with this. None of them had degrees in math.
Now textbooks have been written, computer software programs produced, and teachers trained in this idiotic developmentally inappropriate approach to counting numbers.
The Asians use an abacus. It is the same thing as counting on your fingers. And they are kicking our ass in mathematics.
Now that Bill Gates and the federal government have abandoned you and left you with these texts, computer curricula and so forth - what are you going to do? Billions upon billions have been spent putting this in place and the ship is adrift.
One of the effects of this bad pedagogy is to stress the kids out. They don't understand it so it causes all kinds of physical manifestations of stress.
It is a malicious, manipulative lie to say kids do not "understand" what 5 + 8 is until they learn base 10 math formally. This lie was designed to justify making some arbitrary change to math pedagogy. To be seen as "doing something". So they made this up, thinking that most people are going to be too stupid to understand it is a con job. I do not believe a single member of the math committee actually buys their own propaganda about how this means you "understand" better.
The states adopting Common Core, the parents and teachers, had no idea this was coming. The educational bureaucracies accepted grant money with strings attached. ESSA removed those strings.
You do not have to teach math this way in order to get federal money now. You are not compelled to adopt textbooks that teach it this way. You do not have to mark students wrong when they say 13 but do not see it as one group of tens and another group of ones.
So are you going to keep teaching math this way?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r40ZRax6lxg
The hoax is that Gates' committee had to find some difference between the present math pedagogy and the as-yet unwritten common core approach.
We taught that 10 is the number one unit larger than nine. We did not introduce the concept of "tens" vs. "ones" in second grade for Christ's sake. The only two mathematicians on the validation committee voted no on this and produce protest videos now on how developmentally inappropriate it is.
The education degrees on the committee were the ones who came up with this. None of them had degrees in math.
Now textbooks have been written, computer software programs produced, and teachers trained in this idiotic developmentally inappropriate approach to counting numbers.
The Asians use an abacus. It is the same thing as counting on your fingers. And they are kicking our ass in mathematics.
Now that Bill Gates and the federal government have abandoned you and left you with these texts, computer curricula and so forth - what are you going to do? Billions upon billions have been spent putting this in place and the ship is adrift.
One of the effects of this bad pedagogy is to stress the kids out. They don't understand it so it causes all kinds of physical manifestations of stress.
It is a malicious, manipulative lie to say kids do not "understand" what 5 + 8 is until they learn base 10 math formally. This lie was designed to justify making some arbitrary change to math pedagogy. To be seen as "doing something". So they made this up, thinking that most people are going to be too stupid to understand it is a con job. I do not believe a single member of the math committee actually buys their own propaganda about how this means you "understand" better.
The states adopting Common Core, the parents and teachers, had no idea this was coming. The educational bureaucracies accepted grant money with strings attached. ESSA removed those strings.
You do not have to teach math this way in order to get federal money now. You are not compelled to adopt textbooks that teach it this way. You do not have to mark students wrong when they say 13 but do not see it as one group of tens and another group of ones.
So are you going to keep teaching math this way?
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