[ExI] common core educations standards, was: RE: far future

[Adrian Tymes]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 5:42 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

> Here’s one for you.  I haven’t heard any debate on Common Core standards
> here, but I am finding the whole debate most interesting.  My son’s
> principle commented that the way the questions are asked is baffling some
> of the students.  She went on to say that the first and second graders are
> catching on quickly, and are better at it than the fifth and sixth grades.
> Their parents, forget it, they don’t understand, and the grandparents are
> hopeless.
>

Which may have more to do with devaluing of lifelong learning - or of
different standards applied to the different groups.


> An example is the following Common Core test question, which contains an
> error.  Can you spot the error and give the solution?  I am so brainwashed,
> I read into the question what I think they meant, never even noticing the
> grammatical error, and figured it out immediately:
>
>
>
> “Tyler made 36 total snowflakes which is a multiple of how triangular
> snowflakes he made. How many triangular snowflakes could he have made?”
>
> Did ya get it?   {8-]  They have a funny backhanded way of asking
> questions.
>

I see the missing word.  ;)

As to the math part: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 12, 18, or 36.  It's a factoring
question.
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