Christian works on a take-home test.
The family hangs out in a group study room.
Day: November 23, 2013
Day 824 of 1000
Betty Blonde #8 – 07/28/2008
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This is an excerpt from a World Magazine article about how the Common Core government education standards treats math:
Two years ago in September, Heather Crossin’s 8-year-old daughter Lucy came home from her Catholic school in Indianapolis with a math problem that seemed unusual.
“Bridge A is 407 feet long. Bridge B is 448 feet long,” the problem read. “Which bridge is longer? How do you know?”
“Bridge B is longer,” Crossin’s daughter had written. “I found this out by just looking at the number and seeing that 448 is greater than 407.”
The youngster’s answer was mostly wrong: According to her new textbook, enVisionMATH Common Core, she was supposed to compare the hundreds column, the tens column, and the ones column individually. The teacher gave her one point out of three.
Read the whole article here. The sad part is the Common Core is not only bad in its philosophical biases, but in that it will effect even those how do not buy into the governments really bad educational methods and ideas–home and private schools. Here is an excellent analysis of Common Core and its impact from people who have done their homework and have an excellent record of supporting educational methods that actually work.