That is the same shit that got me the only 0 in my life in maths when I was 4! We had 8+5 = ... + ... = ... and a whole list like this, so I didn't understand, asked the teacher, she said "find a simple way to find the result", and I think I wasn't dumb enough because this was already simple to me so I wrote 8+5=8+5=13. So she gave me 0, said "you should have written 10", so I said none of these added up to ten and she wrote on the paper that I hadn't understood a fundamental thing about additions. I came home in tears and my mom started by yelling, took a look at the paper, paused, said she was crazy and I shouldn't take this result into consideration and we went for waffles. But I still had this 0, knew the teacher thought I was stupid. 16 years later I'm still not over it. Glad to see I'm not the only confused kid though.
I'm sick of the school trying to say my kid is delayed when at home he can read and speak at equivalent to a 15 year old (he's 7) and I'm not talking about my vast vocabulary of expletives either.
Jeez people, calm down. They are asking a very young child the first step in a method of doing addition in your head. With 8+5 you figure out what you need to get to the highest 10 and then add the remainder.
Nowhere does it say anything about solving the problem and it’s a very much valid way of doing addition mentally.
The problem is that what they often are trying to teach is above the understanding of the kids because of the stage of mental development the children are at.
2+2=4. That's all any kid needs to know about addition. We'd be better off by introducing them to algebra at an earlier stage than cooking up this bullshit to keep them busy.
2 + 2 = 4 isn't enough, at some point in life you're gonna come across some money at least, doing calculations quickly in your mind is the difference between someone hiring you. Introducing simple algebra at an early age doesn't work for every kiddie out there.
What are you looking for @flowerkiller? What age is appropriate to teach children addition? For that matter, what age is this child since you seem to have a “better understanding” than I?
They introduced my kids to math this advanced in pre-school and by the time they were beginning first grade their classes could get through simple algebra. Every time they show me how they’ve been taught it seems to work a lot better than what I got as a kid in the 80’s. What’s the issue here?
The problem with this "new math" is you have to already know math to do the math. It doesn't help you learn math. Kids struggle with this for this very reason. Its like telling someone to write a sentence with an object, verb, and a prepositional phrase but forgetting to teach them how to spell words. You can do it but it generally takes longer and they make way more mistakes in the process.
But the point of this latest “new math” is that, yes, there is a higher learning curve but once the kids have it down they can then visualize the basic math better making advanced concepts like algebra and calculus much easier.
Parental objection to evolving teaching methods isn’t a new thing. A gentlemen named Tom Lehrer wrote a song called New Math in the 60’s on the same topic. (It’s quite funny, I recommend it)
my problem with it is how stupidly they explain the idea. Teach them something like red:apple::___:tangerine first... then you can explain it like 8+5 = 10 + ___
That's WAY easier to understand... than these nonsensical word problems that confuse adults as well.
Nowhere does it say anything about solving the problem and it’s a very much valid way of doing addition mentally.
https://thepubliceducator.com/2013/03/01/common-core-and-the-suspension-of-child-development/
Why don’t you read a few articles and do some research yourself for a better understanding.
They introduced my kids to math this advanced in pre-school and by the time they were beginning first grade their classes could get through simple algebra. Every time they show me how they’ve been taught it seems to work a lot better than what I got as a kid in the 80’s. What’s the issue here?
Parental objection to evolving teaching methods isn’t a new thing. A gentlemen named Tom Lehrer wrote a song called New Math in the 60’s on the same topic. (It’s quite funny, I recommend it)
That's WAY easier to understand... than these nonsensical word problems that confuse adults as well.