Diane Klopfensteinon September 26, 2014 at 10:40 am
Is this the new math? Is this what you’re learning now? I thought I was confused back then but sheesh. Dad wants to know if this is what we’re paying for 🙂
They tried the so-called “new math” on us when I was in fourth grade, back during the Kennedy administration. I have no idea why, because the old math had been working just fine. “New math” was a miserable failure and a year later they switched back to the old variety. Let’s hope the same thing happens in whatever schools are using the ridiculous curriculum pictured above.
Actually, this is how I do addition in my head…
To each their own!
Is this the new math? Is this what you’re learning now? I thought I was confused back then but sheesh. Dad wants to know if this is what we’re paying for 🙂
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I don’t know if this curriculum is being used here in Des Moines, but it is in some states. It seems awfully convoluted to me.
That’s just tensist. I’m an elevensy guy. (8+3 = 11) Then add 2.
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They tried the so-called “new math” on us when I was in fourth grade, back during the Kennedy administration. I have no idea why, because the old math had been working just fine. “New math” was a miserable failure and a year later they switched back to the old variety. Let’s hope the same thing happens in whatever schools are using the ridiculous curriculum pictured above.
Yes, I lived through (and survived) some of those experiments, too. Thanks for writing, and thanks for supporting my Kickstarter campaign.
My pleasure.
The crabgrass of Common Core is tenacious.