(Last answer should say: Do Away With It, It Doesn't Help.) So, I probably won't say too much, because I don't remember that much about Common Core, but I basically just want your thoughts on it. I'll simply link a few videos here:
X(To the power of 3) + X= A wasted a year of my life. By the way the answer would be X(To the power of 4).
Well, I could have selected "I never dealt with common core", as I do not live in the United States (which I'm happy about). But after seeing those two videos, I'm already convinced that Common Core is the same kind of idea as getting rid of net neutrality. Unbelievable.
My school has a great common core, but the only thing is that the teachers hate it too, so thats why its not that bad. If the teachers went by the PEARSON common core it would be bad
I think that year was, indeed, wasted, because x^3+x can only be written as x^3+x, and definitely is not x^4. If you don't know the x, you can't go any further. --- Post updated --- As for what I've read on Common Core, it seems to be too much for the average little Joey, and some methods may be too hard for less proficient students, and too simplistic for more advanced ones. Schools should only see it as a guideline, and work out their methods of working with their students. Though it's easy to see that many criticisms come from parents who are ashamed that they can't help their kids with homework.
Yeah I suppose algerbra isn't that useful, like I don't think I have ever used the quadratic formula in every day life, only in a maths test. Simultaneous equations might be useful in limited cases
My math teacher is saying "yeah, you will use these equations every day when you move out of your parents house" and im like YeAh RiGhT I nEeD tO kNoW thE vElOcITY oF my SOUp coImInG oUt Of ThE cAn
Been waiting for a thread like this for a while. Common Core is pretty bad. It luckily was not a thing until after I was out of elementary school, where it is the dumbest. I've seen the ways they tell my younger brothers to do math, and Jesus, they take the simplest parts of math and make them as complex as the Pre-calculus stuff I take now. According to CC math, everything is supposed to be added to a ten, because tens are easier to add, right? So the problem 76+45 is made easier by doing 76+4 is 80, and 45+5 is 50, and 50+80=130, and 4+5=9, and 130-9 is 121! This is how they tell kids to do it, and if the kids don't write all that out (And they usually have to draw a model for it as well, and put some boxes around numbers for good measure) they will get the question wrong, even if the answer is right. Common Core does reading too. Not as much to be said about it, other than the fact that since Common Core was adopted in Florida, I had to read at least 5 books about race relations, enough so that the black people got tired of them. I don't know if that was CC or just the school district though. I could write a post just as big as this one about nutty things I know my school district did too.
Wait. That's what CC is? Where you've gotta do the 'make sure you right out every single bit of 'your' working out, or fail!'? Because that stuff sucked. Almost every time, if not, then every time it was easier to just do the sum your own way. Often you'd sit there figuring out the way you 'worked out' the answer for twice as long as the actual main question bit itself... If there was anything in Maths that confused me more than anything, it was probably stuff like that. (except 3D shapes. Those are all the nope). Atleast I basically never need to do any of that again. There's no way I'd pass a Maths exam now...
Yeah, it's like that, but the methods you have to write make less sense than the search bar does to a forum noob.
My school system had common core and it was a pile of ... you know... Anyway they finally got rid of it. There was nothing good about it so i was glad when they got rid of it.
