Math Education: An Inconvenient Truth

lucyacousticallyy Says:

Feb 19, 2010 - AMEN!! I'm sending this to everyone!!

bertwindon Says:

Feb 20, 2010 - @Infinitesimul Am I particularly dim today, because the "Lattice method" looks like a total shrade to me. Like a slick salesman she wrote it all down as though it made sense ! She has represented six hundred as 0/6 twenty as 0/2 then added them together to get 800 !??? hahahahahahahahaha! this is just tooo funny. Am I senile or what ? I'm only 62.

bertwindon Says:

Feb 20, 2010 - @Wyldbutterfly028 Yeh it's ok so long as it's someone else's money your spending and you don't have to get your own dinner ! Oh - "The lattice method" - guaranteed to raise a smile. You're not supposed to take it seriously, it's only "math". Similar to "meth", I guess. But it's in a school textbook. You pays yer muney - you takes yer choice.

sleeper2345 Says:

Feb 23, 2010 - bertwindon, Fibonacci introduced the method to Europe in 1202. This is a "tried and true" procedure that has been around longer than the method you learned in school. Shouldn't we do what we've always done?

GrimHeaperThe Says:

Feb 26, 2010 - This math is garbage.CRUNCH!

ravingjunkey Says:

Feb 27, 2010 - I SUCK

ravingjunkey Says:

Feb 27, 2010 - AT MATHS

ravk Says:

Feb 27, 2010 - I was never good in math, though I have been teaching myself.

geecheegirl Says:

Mar 1, 2010 - this is atrocious, and these new maths give me a headache. ugh

delorisgrant Says:

Mar 1, 2010 - This is the reason why my daughter had problems in math. Math Investigations. I should sue the school for messing up her life.

Matt6069 Says:

Mar 1, 2010 - You, are a fucking moron.

GeneralHasslehoff Says:

Mar 3, 2010 - what? I am 17 going into my senior year I learned the carry the one way this is unbelievable how can they teach it these ridiculous ways

Feanorsson Says:

Mar 4, 2010 - Its weird how learning has become political. Not sure why, but liberals tend to support this "new math" and oppose learning to read using phonics.

xXDaytwoiXx Says:

Mar 7, 2010 - I am a teacher and a parent. The school district where my children attend switched to Everyday Math 4 years ago. After four years, my son is completely confused by basic math. He cannot complete a double digit multiplication or division problem without drawing a lattice or taking up 2 sheets of paper for a problem that should be done in his head. No time was given for mastery of multiplication facts, so he had to do this in his spare time at home.

xXDaytwoiXx Says:

Mar 7, 2010 - I understand that the program, in theory, is supposed to give students a deeper understanding of math concepts, but it has failed to do so for my son. He now hates math and is extremely frustrated by it. His teacher has no idea how to help him and is unwilling to use traditional methods to do so.

xXDaytwoiXx Says:

Mar 7, 2010 - I tried to teach him the traditional algorithm so that he could complete his homework in a more timely manner, but he said that he's not allowed to do it that way and gets into trouble if he does and will have to re-do it at school. Wouldn't it make more sense to allow students to use whichever method actually works for them?

Rametesaima Says:

Mar 7, 2010 - I didn't like math till my senior year of high school where my calculus teacher taught us mathematics "his way" and not the prescribed way. Amazingly his students would always earn very high scores on the AB and BC AP Exams. Due to his kind and engaging teaching style I came to love mathematics and am now majoring in mathematics at my university. :)

gungnir2357 Says:

Mar 12, 2010 - Modern math education is awful because the teaching methods are silly.

cabby16 Says:

Mar 12, 2010 - Students who can solve problems by simply using the standard algorithm often have little understanding of what they have done, why they have done it, or why it works. Everyday problems are never presented in a standard algorithm format. If they don't have a deep mathematical understanding , they will not know how to use it. It is interesting that most of my junior level students have a better understanding of math then their parents. I wonder why! Traditional math is not enough.

sleeper2345 Says:

Mar 15, 2010 - Unfortunately, we now must rely on parents with little mathematical understanding to make decisions about the mathematics that is taught in schools. This is a vicious cycle that leads to continued poor mathematical performance.

sickmint79 Says:

Mar 16, 2010 - i wonder why kids in singapore don't do this crap and stomp mudholes in our students. i wonder why kids who use everyday math often have to re-take math they supposedly already learned when going into engineering fields in college.

sickmint79 Says:

Mar 16, 2010 - i'd get the singapore math books and teach him your way. as long as your kids aren't dependent on a calculator for basic math then who cares whether they did the work the lattice method or not? you are a parent, do what you believe is right for your kid. fight this stuff if you think it's garbage. don't be scared to stand up. you aren't fighting someone whom is a nasa engineer on how to do the math. you're fighting some 3rd grade teacher.

15jacala Says:

Mar 17, 2010 - education suck ball and all you dumb peolpe are gay go fuck your yourself hahahaha bye bye lardass

ceresWar Says:

Mar 18, 2010 - why learn this my caclualter can do it faster

curiousgeorge0987 Says:

Mar 18, 2010 - I love the "reformed" math. All the edu-morons who have promoted it have not only produced a generation of innumerates, but they are effectively guaranteeing my employment for the next two decades. Thanks for that, edu-morons.