Maggie's Farm

At first I thought she was just "winging it", making it up as she went along. But I realized she was repeating an example that was taught to her by someone. Here bizarre system is so cumbersome that probably if you gave her a simple math problem that she wasn't already tutored on she would be stumped and ramble around and finally have to admit she had no idea how to do it under the "neo math" system. But I cannot believe that this new math was intended to be a "fail" and not work as hoped for. Instead I suspect it was not created by competent experienced teachers and likely not created by anyone with a math background.

The problem with that is that there is no memorization to subtracting 12 from 32. It is intuitive. Perhaps the stated goal is to eliminate memorization but don't we all agree that the convoluted process that we saw in the video would take any of us numerous tries to remeber how to do it and then we couldn't convert that process to the next problem because it is such a bizarre system. Try it for yourself. Instead of doing the very simple 32-12=20 try replicating her process with 19-11+13=? Do you add 4 to 11 but subtract 3 from 13 using her technique or do you add 4 to 11 AND add 2 to 13. What then?? And yet the problem itself is so simple a 7 year old can do it but using the neo-math technique even adults have no idea where to start.
Also I though the comment made in the video that using base 10 was much easier then tring to subtract 12 from 32. Did she not realize that 32-12 is still base ten??? Our number system IS base ten. Honestly, to me this looked like Saturday Night Live skit. I am still not sure we aren't all being put on. I'm still waiting to hear someone shout "bazinga"!

There are some other red flags about the common core push. This push began in earnest in 2012 and was accepted in 2013. That's somewhat of a record. The educators who were asked to be on the panel to review it and accept it were required to sign a contract which prohibited them from ever discussing what went on in this "publuc" tax payer funded panel. There were no real opportunities for public participation and no discussion ahead of the "mandate" that informed the public what common core was. Additionally a substantial revenue bait was offerred to states to sign up for common core even though they had no idea what it was, how it would affect them and even if it worked. And there lies the worst problem; that it is essentially a major change to the system with absolutely no evidence that it will even work. One of the requirements for colleges and states is that they must accept any high school graduate who passes the common core requirements. This is after all a master plan to make all graduates of K-12 college ready. no more ACT or SAT if you pass the common core all "participating" colleges must accept you. Factor into this that colleges were offerred a take or leave it offer they couldn't refuse to agree to the common core standard. What this means is a high school student cannot be tested by the college to see if they need remedial math and must be placed into the entire first year curriculum withut regard to ability. The fear is that either many students will thus fail the first year of college because they are not ready for college OR the much worse and more likely possibility that colleges must dumb down the classes to accomodate the less capable students. Another part of this which upsets a lot of people is that this mandate applies to home schooled and religious schooled students too. While the home school parent might be teaching a traditional history and literature curriculum mch more rigorous then the public school and producing a smarter better educated student the student will likely fail the common core test. This appears to be a back door way of limiting or outlawing all non-public (union) schools. And worse still it appears that at least part of the goal is to propagandize students to the new world order which minimizes the rights that the left doesn't like (such as the 2nd amendment) and emphasizes rights that don't even exist.
By the way 30 highly qualified educators were selected to sit on this committee expected to rubber stam the common core program and 5 rejected it. Instead of writing a minority report on this disagreement these 5 people were "expunged" from the record and it would appear (just like the UN AGW committee) that 100% agree and the "science is settled". This has been ram rodded through in secrecy, why aren't we upset about that fact alone never mind all the other problems with it?