i can remember helping my sons with math
i always liked math
you know
its something that there was one way to do things
something concrete you could always count on
like
a+b=c
always
and
c-b=a
always
c-a=b
always
eg
1+2=3
3-2=1
3-1=2
you could always count on math
it was always consistent
not like
the weather
politics
writing
life
i would help my sons with their math
quickly coming up with the correct answer
but
no they had to come up with the answer by
doing the calculations another way
using lots of steps going around in circles
then
spittoon out came the answer
sort of like putting it into a calculator
the answer is right
but how the hell did you come up with that answer
so
5+5+5=15
no thats not correct
its
3+3+3+3+3=15
now thats the correct answer
looks to me like both are correct
now 5+5+5 has another meaning
its not 15
if you want to know just google it
or click the links
take that common core math
bet you didnt know that one
heres the way i would have done it
the old school way i guess you would call it
5x3=15
thats my final answer
its the multiplication tables
ok you dont know what those are
just google it also
i guess im missing something
with this common core math
the organicgreen doctor
Doc, I don’t know, but if I put the best spin on it, I would guess that they are trying to teach the kids to translate a mathematical equation into spoken language. If you had a bag of apples and you counted them then there would be five apples. You wouldn’t say apples five. You could but you wouldn’t. So if there five x apples, five is the number and apples is the thing. So if you see 5 x something they want you to think there are 5 somethings. Like so many things, taken out of context, it doesn’t make sense. Anyway, that’s what I think.
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