Timeline for Does SE use Common Core math?
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| Feb 28, 2016 at 13:46 | comment | added | Wayne Werner | @Ramhound the core standards just state that you need to [understand what division is]( corestandards.org/Math/Content/5/NBT/B/6). Can you take a figure (e.g. a square), say that it has 4 units, and dividing it in half gives you two? Congrats, you understand common core math. Would you agree that it's important to grok that's what 4/2=2 actually means? All the insanity you see is usually someone trying to make a buck by making things extra complicated, and it pisses me off. | |
| Feb 28, 2016 at 9:40 | comment | added | Ramhound | @WayneWerner - Again; Engineer here; There is nothing standard about common math. But perhaps I like to use the "old school" method to divide numbers.. I don't even know WHAT they call that division in Common Core. | |
| Feb 28, 2016 at 8:57 | comment | added | fixer1234 | Geez. This thread has turned into a monster, and the actual question has taken a back seat. Maybe I should have based my lame humor on something else. :-) | |
| Feb 28, 2016 at 8:43 | comment | added | Seldom 'Where's Monica' Needy | @FrankThomas Although Common Core tries to teach the kind of shortcuts that people who are "good at math" tend to discover intuitively, I think we've all heard the horror-stories that – especially for kids who already knew some math before before seeing CC (say they got tutored privately with an aim to put them ahead) – they may already have a different set of equally-effective shortcuts which they may now get punished for or barred from using. I don't think most instructors want to teach it like a religion, but I believe a fair number are pressured to do so from the top. | |
| Feb 28, 2016 at 8:31 | comment | added | Seldom 'Where's Monica' Needy | Math minor here. Common Core is STILL confusing even with the 6 extra credits. @Ramhound | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 14:56 | comment | added | Wayne Werner | Protip: Common Core is actually standards, all of the insane things you see are people who don't understand either math or the standards trying to teach both. And a massive industry sprung up foisting "curriculum" that's about as useful as most CS "certifications". | |
| Feb 24, 2016 at 19:48 | comment | added | user557555 | No, but their computers run a Pentium P5 800 nm 5V | |
| Feb 22, 2016 at 17:09 | comment | added | Frank Thomas | I've generally found that the only people with a problem with Common Core math, already know math and are mad that its different. Most of the people I've encountered that are actually involved in the teaching of math to children are generally supportive, other than that they must first come to terms with it before they can teach it. | |
| Feb 21, 2016 at 3:19 | comment | added | user72945 | I'm not sure how this is confusing, at all. This is absolutely no different than carrying numbers, you're just going down instead of up. | |
| Feb 19, 2016 at 22:19 | answer | added | Damian Yerrick | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 19, 2016 at 20:58 | comment | added | Insane | Oh god.. I nearly vomited while watching that common core video. | |
| Feb 19, 2016 at 17:21 | comment | added | Raystafarian | @Synetech I thought it was new math. | |
| Feb 19, 2016 at 16:01 | comment | added | Synetech | Reminds me of New Math. | |
| Feb 19, 2016 at 6:57 | comment | added | Jonno | Thanks for the link to the common core maths, I'd never heard of it. You unlearn something every day! | |
| Feb 17, 2016 at 21:07 | comment | added | Ramhound |
+1 for making fun of common core. Some background: I have multiple degrees( 2 B.S. and 1 M.S. ) that require a great deal of math, I was even only 6 credits away from a math minor, and common core confuses even me.
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| Feb 17, 2016 at 20:37 | history | edited | fixer1234 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 17, 2016 at 16:33 | history | edited | fixer1234 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 17, 2016 at 10:46 | comment | added | DavidPostill Mod | @Sally superuser.com/review and hover over an avatar. | |
| Feb 17, 2016 at 7:05 | history | edited | fixer1234 |
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| Feb 17, 2016 at 6:58 | history | edited | fixer1234 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 17, 2016 at 2:29 | history | asked | fixer1234 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |