{"id":3039,"date":"2013-08-22T12:58:17","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T19:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=3039"},"modified":"2013-08-22T20:05:55","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T03:05:55","slug":"progressive-mathematics-3-x-4-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/08\/22\/progressive-mathematics-3-x-4-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Progressive Mathematics: 3 x 4 = 11"},"content":{"rendered":"

     Common Core standards, created whole-cloth from the minds of the Obama administration, are seeking to burn down the straw-man of “rote memorization” and building “understanding” as a path towards building mathematical knowledge.<\/p>\n

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     In the below video, a teacher<\/a> training session<\/a> explains<\/a> why even if a student ” said 3 X 4 was 11, if they were able to explain their reasoning and explain how they came up with their answer, really in words and oral explanations and they showed it in a picture but they just got the final number wrong; we’re really more focusing on the how and the why.”\u00a0 It’s like insisting on a formal proof<\/a> that 1 + 1 = 2 before teaching basic arithmetic!<\/p>\n