On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Sam <[email protected]> wrote: > > On another note, since my daughter was accepted into the 6th grade STEM > program she won't have to do Common Core math. That right there should > speak volumes about it's college readiness. >
That right there could mean LOT'S of things. Perhaps they feel it better suited for the younger students, but have a different/better method for the older students. Perhaps they don't feel like the standards have been vetted enough to offer it across the board at their schools. Who knows. Going back to your viral example. As a math major, i can't count the number of times I was forced on a test to take the "scenic route" to an answer in the name of education vs. expedience. I distinctly remember having to graph natural logarithms, WITHOUT using the natural log function. Why? To learn how Taylor Polynomials could be used to APPROXIMATE natural logs. A problem that might take 5 seconds, took considerably longer. WHy? Education.To teach me what the natural logs were about, and other ways to approach the same question. That is why these viral pictures, these "snippets", are mostly useless. There is almost always a deeper explanation that needs to be explored before anything can be proven or dismissed. The parent who supposedly had an advanced degree (if that's even true), should very well have appreciated this. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:370282 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
