no you are saying that there is, then wallpapering your thread with the usual bs
Ken Robinson!! KEN ROBINSON! I encourage too look him up! Here's a video (I think I've posted it here before!)
[video=youtube;zDZFcDGpL4U]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U[/video]
I HIGHLY recommend reading more of his work if you're interested in changing the education system! It's extremely interesting
But math is only logical isn't it? So how could anyone fail at giving change?
What you're saying IS what we'd call 'common sense'.
What's worse is when something costs $11.25 and you give them a $20 and two $1s expecting back $10.75
Because these kids who stare blankly into the cash register only see in numbers, more so the number they are missing. Change is a constant in that a dime equals ten cents and a quarter 25 and a nickel 5 and a penny 1. The kid looking at the cash register is not looking for a quarter and a dime and a penny, they're looking for 36. Their mind hasn't passed number 36 and because of that it will take them longer to get the customers change.
I'm not sure it is logical for everyone!
I think there are really interesting ways to bridge the arts/science divide and make math less science, and more accessible to students who are conceptual learners. This is difficult, but I think if we stop creating 'science' and 'arts' divides, and see that there's so much similarity and overlap in how we learn these disciplines, students could foster creativity, individuality, and applied skills while they learn these concepts.
I'm not saying that math can't be fun or you can't learn it different ways or that its just a bleak desert of dis-pare where imagination goes to die, I am saying that 2+2 will always equal 4, it does not magically turn into a 7.
Children have to do what the teachers tell them. the teachers have to do what the guidelines tell them and parents for the most part have to just suck it up
The question here is: 'are the guidelines correct?' and also 'is there an agenda behind the guidelines?'
Did you learn about nazi germany at school? We did....i'm from scotland by the way...we were hammered about the nazis to the point where i was actually put off history (because i like looking at the overall picture not zooming in on one thing the whole time to the loss of the wider picture.....to me history is not about looking at dusty books telling us about past deeds...it is a study of human behaviour)
So anyway...if you were taught about the nazis at school you would no doubt have been told how the nazis changed the school curriculem in order to affect how children perceived the world and their place in it. Also children were encouraged to be spies for the state against their own parents
So if that could happen in modern industrialised germany then it can happen in other modern industrialised countries
So the question i'm asking is: 'is there a political agenda behind common core?'
Lol if there was a political agenda in the teaching of math it would be to teach the next generation how to obey while still getting the same outcome, or maybe even a better one. The point in this would be to make the next generation not live with their parents with no job, no future, jacking off in front of a computer till their life ends, or they finally tell themselves to be better. Which from what I've seen happens to people around the age of 35.
Politically they would aim to make their economy better, cause you can't take over the world with a shitty economy.
Hahaha *shake my head*
2+2=11
In ternary (base 3)
You have made me go cross eyed researching how that works, lol thanks for that. 4=11 however it is 2*2 that equals 11. From there I don't know, but I am more than sure it is not written out 2+2=11.
2+2=4.
I think its poignant that Orwell who served in the propaganda department of the BBC during WW2 (and therefore knows about the kind of skullduggery that was going on) warned us in his book '1984' about a distortion of education and of language
Orwell says in the book that the aim is to teach the population that 2+2=5 because if you can convince people of that then they are controllable as they really can't tell up from down anymore
I don't think the US government is behaving in a way that is sustainably competitive in the global market...in fact it appears that certain interest groups are trying to sabotage the dollar on the road to a new currency
A strong and independent US (particularly the US because it was at one point an economic and military powerhouse) is a barrier to the creation of a world government...so the US must be weakened first so that they will come crawling in desperation, on their hands and knees under the auspices of the new world order
So education in the US is not about creating the best candidates (unless you are rich and can send your kids to the best schools)...it is really about creating a dumbed down and pliable work force that can be absorbed into a global fascistic system
David Rockefeller (head of the rockefeller clan) wrote his thesis at uni on fabian socialism...these are the ideas those guys are working with and those are the guys shaping your education system
The people in control in the US, or the people who want to be in control, would have better luck molding third world countries into their likeness as they have found out and have since been doing. You can't necessarily grab a bunch of entitled bastards and yell 'work for me!' and expect them to do it. Something that has given great frustration to the rich and they are taking their 'work for me!' attitudes else where. Like that fucked up church that went to, Nigeria? somewhere, and told those people to start burning the gays. If anything, the US will be the last to conform if at all. Really someone should just bomb us, we're unteachable, lol...
2+2=11 in ternary because in ternary there are only three numerals 0, 1, and 2.
You get 11 because there is no 4. 2+1 carries to 10 just as 9+1 carries to 10 in decimal. Since you have 1 more, it is 2+2, it carries to 10 and adds 1 to get 11.
Alright well, in 2nd grade math and the math I was speaking of, we were both speaking of until you quoted ternary base 3 to prove some asinine point, 2+2=4. Whether you just want to with an argument or actually teach me something I can no longer tell and I will remember to not do this again.
Though for someone who is so easy to understand math it is no surprise you would think that learning common core wouldn't help kids in future math. These things are not your definition of 'common sense.'
They don't want to teach majority world countries they just want to take their resources....so they give them lots of guns and make them all fight each other and whilst they are doing that...they steal their resources
They don't want anyone to be smart
[video=youtube;ILQepXUhJ98]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILQepXUhJ98[/video]
It's not so much that they don't want people to be smart, it is that they want people to think as they do. Too many of us don't think the way they do at all. This is the Uganda thing I was talking about: http://www.salon.com/2013/10/09/god_loves_uganda_africas_terrifying_christian_revival/
No they want a two tier country where we live a certain way and they live a different way
They will get the best of everything whilst we live on state handed out crap
They don't want us to think like them...they want us to have a hive mind...they will be the queen bee
They use christianity as just another way of fucking with peoples minds; they are not christians
Well I suspect that they do want us to think a certain way at minimum.
I'm a product of not thinking in that way. How am I "good at math"? (I'm really not)
I learned in a way that I understood and not in the way they wanted me to understand.
I learned in a way that I understood and not in the way they wanted me to understand.