How Children's Brains Memorize Math Facts

Not any more!

With the adoption of Common Core, knowing the answer is to be scorned.

If the child can't draw boxes or bow ties, using countless mindless steps to arrive at some feel good conclusion that may, or may not, be correct they surely will not succeed in life.

Think I'm kidding? Just sit through a 4th grade math introduction to the "Common Core" way of doing it.

Or, ask my daughter who is a school teacher. She hates Common Core!

I'm serious. Knowing the answer will only get you in trouble if you are in a Common Core state.

I must have worked at a few common core based businesses before being that when ever I came up with the correct answer to a problem we were facing all sorts of stuff hit my fan so to speak.

I agree completely.

Education has deteriorated to the point of uselessness.

"Our" 15 YO had to sign his adoption papers at the county juvenile court office, because he is over 12. The lawyer was surprised that he could actually sign, and not print, his name. I fear his little brothers will never learn to write.

That speaks volumes about modern educational expectations.

Out 4th grader is a "math master". He gets awards for it every quarter.

College ready? Who are they kidding?

A deficiency in the basics seems increasingly common.

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Many people cannot 'calculate' a 15% tip in their head, even have confidence they might get reasonably close.

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If my at checkout in a store, the cashier rings up $3.77, when I provide a five and two pennies, the most common reaction seems to be utter confusion with little or no hope of recovery without help from a me or a machine.

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The ability to determine the total for a couple items including 7 1/2% sales tax without resorting to pen and paper or machine seems for many to pass easily for incomprehensible shadowy sorcery.

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Stores commonly mislead customers with incorrect per weight or per item prices for items on store shelves with no notable backlash.

without resorting to paper, calculator, or finger and toes.
In Texas if the number goes over 10 then we have to take off our shoe.

Common Core is a good example why government experts are not the answer. I wasn't present, but I think the steps from education development research to Common Core goes something like this:

"We need to recognize that not all students learn the same way, so when one or a few students are struggling, we need to show those students another way to approach the problem. That way all students can learn techniques that fit their abilities."

Add some bureaucratic magic:

"All students must learn all methods of solving a problem and be able to explain in detail how each method works. That way all students will be forced to experience frustration."

I couldn't open the link posted. I found this story. Is it reporting on the same study?

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/study-math-easier-kids-others/

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140817220106.htm

Still can't open the link. Our security program identifies this as a "DNS Black Hole site", whatever that means, and forbids us access to it.

DNSBL - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Once upon a time, knowledge/wisdom equaled survival.

That is no longer the case, and learning, (in the US), has become folly. Only victims are guaranteed a free pass. Producers are thieves.

That education in this country has been systematically gutted to its very core is no accident. History repeatedly shows that the more un/mis-educated the masses, the easier they are to lead by the nose down the Garden Path and, ultimately, to the slaughter.