--- Log opened Sun Mar 28 00:00:41 2021
09:14 <@Evilpig> common core isn't a method of math but it's a collection of skills that are common grounds for a math education.  The new methods they are using to teach math are dumb in many regards
09:17 <@Evilpig> some of this crap they're teaching is supposed to help these kids understand what the math principles are doing so they get a better understanding but kids don't want to understand.  they want a set of repeatable actions that they can do to complete the task and get back to doing whatever else they actually wanted to
09:17 <@Evilpig> so what you get is showing a kid how to do one way of solving a problem but once that method doesn't work and they can't understand why they have a complete breakdown
09:19 <@Evilpig> they way they tried to teach long division infuriated me because the second you don't divide cleanly the method breaks down.  these dumbshit kids don't know any better and when you try to explain the concept of a decimal and continuing division down further that method they taught them 100% doesn't work because of the way they use the space on the page
09:19 <@Evilpig> https://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic-home/multiply-divide/mult-digit-div-2/v/partial-quotient-division
09:19 < PigBot> Partial quotient method of division: introduction (video) | Khan Academy (at www.khanacademy.org) https://tinyurl.com/y9u8hwp2
09:25 <@Evilpig> http://www.corestandards.org/Math/  <-- actual list of what common core is
09:25 < PigBot> Mathematics Standards | Common Core State Standards Initiative (at www.corestandards.org)
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13:47 < rpifan> oh this common core stuff
13:47 < rpifan> the US really is a sad sad place to be
15:22 <@Mirage> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bno0HeQfxrU
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15:31 < aestetix> is paformnel a word
15:31 < aestetix> https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/28/jurors-trial-derek-chauvin-george-floyd-478265
15:31 < PigBot> Heavy burden for jurors in case of George Floyd's death - POLITICO (at www.politico.com) https://tinyurl.com/yzcrlfvo
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