COMMON CORE MATH MAKES SIMPLE ARITHMETIC AS COMPLEX AS CALCULUS

COMMON CORE MATH MAKES SIMPLE ARITHMETIC AS COMPLEX AS CALCULUS

In a function section titled “Homework Helper: Math Tips for the Common Core,” on NBC affiliate WGZR Channel 2 in Buffalo, New York, a fourth grade math trainer, Eileen Klag Ryan from Maple West Elementary in Williamsville, explains how you can add 9+6 utilizing base ten.

In line with Ryan, younger college students is likely to be uncomfortable fixing a easy addition downside akin to 9+6, however might be “fairly comfy interested by their pal 10 as a result of they have been working in a base 10 system within the earlier grades.

Within the video, Ryan explains how widespread core math teaches college students to decompose the 6 and accomplice the 9 to a 1 to allow them to anchor to their pal 10 and see what 9+6 is.

“Partner, anchor, decompose? That’s not math. That’s ‘The Silence of the Lambs!'” quipped Greg Gutfeld on Fox Information’ “The Five”