/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.10438682]

Why common core causes controversy?

t. non american

[Anonymous No.10438690]

>>10438682
Because the focus isn't on improving the upper bound, it's a focus on the lower bound. You'll get a better average at the expense of the higher achievers by lowering the bar for accomplishment. It would be fine if it wasn't an attempt to educate people who don't want to/can't learn effectively

It really is in the name, "common core", as we continue to achieve less, the lowest common denominator across all students is increasingly lower, and that new common denominator becomes the core of education

[Anonymous No.10439248]

>>10438682
Because brainlets don't like nor understand change.
It is good because it gets kids to really think about the fundamental nature of math at a young age.
For example, even in kindergarten when kids are just learning how to count the focus is on getting them to understand that numbers are a base system rather than just being able to repeat some arbitrary pattern.
I wish it was the standard when I was young.

[Anonymous No.10439251]

>>10438682

[Anonymous No.10439259]

>>10438690
Any source for this? That sounds interesting and reminds me of how my high school classes were.

[Anonymous No.10439401]

>>10439248
That's the idea behind CC but in practice it's an utter failure. The teachers themselves don't understand "the fundamental nature of math" as the curriculum is attempting to teach, nor do they care to learn it. They hand out standardized worksheets, grade assignments by the book, and generally don't give a fuck about the actual subjects they teach.

[Anonymous No.10439498]

>>10438682
Southerners and oil barons are afraid that standardized science education will teach kids about evolution and climate change

[Anonymous No.10439668]

Because it teaches over complained ways of solving simple problems so brainlet can finally grasp simple things and increase test scores

[Anonymous No.10439673]

>>10438682
They should just follow the official mg cirriculum desu

[Anonymous No.10439913]

>>10438682
Because boomers are scared of federal education standards

[Anonymous No.10439957]

>>10438682
1. Because it imposes a strict nation-wide curriculum, where previously there was more room to make decisions locally.
2. Not many exceptions are made for smart kids and dumb kids, or smart schools and dumb school's.
3. The curriculum contains many "reforms" that parents find pointless or annoying
4. Many of the teachers are too dumb to learn these "reforms" themselves, leading to further confusion
Pic related is sample homework. Imagine you're a parent and your kid wants help with this shit. Repeat every week for ten years

[Anonymous No.10439972]

>>10439957
This being a thumbnail aside, what the fuck is that supposed to convey

[Anonymous No.10440127]

>>10439251
I love the kind of post in pic

[Anonymous No.10440135]

CC is literally just a set of education standards. It’s the states and school districts that decide HOW they should be taught. Retards hating CC really don’t understand how the curriculum system works

[Anonymous No.10440136]

>>10438682
federalizing things is always controversial to Americans, especially relative to European, because it takes away precious state and local power which Americans regard as sacred

[Anonymous No.10440174]

[Anonymous No.10441036]

>>10438682
>>10438682
Because its designed to disadvantage intelligent kids who are forced into public schools, its gaslighting on an industrial scale

[Anonymous No.10441059]

>>10440174
she's actually right though. the literal wikipedia on order of operations points out this ambiguity and points out multiple sources that take both sides of the issue

>With this interpretation 1 ÷ 2x is equal to (1 ÷ 2)x.[1][6] However, in some of the academic literature, multiplication denoted by juxtaposition (also known as implied multiplication) is interpreted as having higher precedence than division, so that 1 ÷ 2x equals 1 ÷ (2x), not (1 ÷ 2)x. For example, the manuscript submission instructions for the Physical Review journals state that multiplication is of higher precedence than division with a slash,[7] and this is also the convention observed in prominent physics textbooks such as the Course of Theoretical Physics by Landau and Lifshitz and the Feynman Lectures on Physics.[a]

using the "/" without parenthesis is unequivocally retarded

[Anonymous No.10441061]

>>10439957
It is not a curriculum and never meant to be

[Anonymous No.10441072]

>>10441059
There is no ambiguity. Punch it into your calculator. There is one right answer, and it's 16. There is no old way or new way. If you wanted to get 1, you should have used the correct notation for it.

[Anonymous No.10441076]

>>10438682
Why do you care if your not an american?

[Anonymous No.10441130]

>>10440136
we talk a lot of shit about the US but the reality is that they managed to create the number one world power with all this "quirks" like using the imperial system... I don't know how this is goin to play out in the long run using common core but I think the first generation will experience a "indirect filtering by IQ" because this kids will have to adapt to this new way of doing things so if you mind doesn't adapt it will filter you out with bad grades....
and by the way the metric system is a "dumped down" system by way of being simpler...

[Anonymous No.10441512]

>>10441072
>There is no ambiguity. Punch it into your calculator.

t. freshman engineer faggot

[Anonymous No.10441513]

>>10438682
it was unironically invented by a jew to make white kids retarded so they stop outscoring black kids on iq tests

[Anonymous No.10441522]

>>10440174
it's a photoshopped image IIRC

[Anonymous No.10441614]

>>10439957
>make decisions locally
which often involved handing standardized testing over to a private nonprofit company. I bet this is a big part of the "controversy"

[Anonymous No.10441662]

>>10441512
Order of operations has no ambiguity. If you want a different result, you need to use a different notation.

[Anonymous No.10441664]

>>10441522
This is the original

[Anonymous No.10441680]

>>10438682
>noooooo! let dumb people stay behind so they resort to crime.
>>10438690
ai taking their jobs, desperate attempt at preventing racewar

[Anonymous No.10441701]

>>10441664
lol. still photoshopped though in case a gullible person reads your post.

[Anonymous No.10442438]

>>10439498
based s o y poster