See what our colleges are teaching the students, anyone see a problem

[rayg]

Does anyone see any problems with what our universities are teaching the students

This Week In Campus Insanity..And Here's the headlines.... And be sure to read vol #1 below also....

Welcome back to Campus Insanity, a weekly roundup of the craziest developments at our nation's 4,000-plus institutions of higher education.

6. Emory University Approves New ‘Race and Ethnicity' Course Requirement | Campus Reform
7.UConn Student Government Leaders Resign, Citing Whiteness | The Daily Campus
4. University's Anti-Bigotry Reading List Includes Book That Equates Conservatism With Racism | Washington Free Beacon
3. Students and Professors Sign Petition to Remove ‘Offensive' White Man Symbol From Crosswalk Signs | Campus Reform
2. Professor: Term ‘Low-Hanging Fruit' is a Microaggression | The College Fix
1. Petition to Fire NYC Professor Accused of Sleeping During Anti-Racist Meeting Gathers 2,000 Signatures | Newsweek
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[Roadkingtrax]

Freebeacon heats up the spoon this morning?

[rayg]

Yes stuff being spoon fed to the students....

[dryheat]

Dang, I came here for bacon.

[lyman]

had a high school friend tell me about box math yesterday,

his daughter teachs at a local historical place, does a lot of online stuff,



I had never heard of box math, and we googled it,


if this is truly what is being taught, we are doomed,

[togor]

This?

http://www.elementarymathconsultant....0each%20factor.

If the method produces the mathematically correct answer, and it makes sense to kids who don't like the standard method, then what's the problem? Math, even vector calculus, linear algebra, always came easy to me. But that's not true for everyone.

[lyman]

yep, that is basically it,


time,

in the time it takes to do one problem, one, using the 'old method' would finish a page,

[togor]

Some may be faster with the new method, especially after practice, or it may be the only way they get to the right answer at all. Giving kids more than one way to solve problems strikes me as a good idea.

My oldest, the MD, is strangely good at complex math problems, but takes elliptical approaches that would not occur to me. But in the end, gets the same answer as me, in about the same amount of time.

[Major Tom]

This?

http://www.elementarymathconsultant....0each%20factor.

If the method produces the mathematically correct answer, and it makes sense to kids who don't like the standard method, then what's the problem? Math, even vector calculus, linear algebra, always came easy to me. But that's not true for everyone.

Math always came easy for me, but todays math is not understandable or easy.

[98src]

Requires multiplication AND addition....takes entirely too long. Looks like it's fixing something that isn't broke.

[togor]

Did anyone try it? Read the link? It's straightforward and like the link says, intended as a visual aid for students to understand what happens in multiplication in a way that is unclear with the regular method. I really don't see the problem with this being another arrow in the math teacher's quiver.

[Vern Humphrey]

Requires multiplication AND addition....takes entirely too long. Looks like it's fixing something that isn't broke.

The "New Math" was based on the assumption everyone was going to get a PHD in math, and after 12 years of public school and 8 years of college, everyone would say, "AH! NOW I get it!"

But if you didn't go that far, you're remain totally confused.

[blackhawknj]

Some people have no talent for math or foreign languages or music, more effort should be devoted to recognizing that. And "no answer can be cheap or easy in the growth field of paraeducation, whose game of planned obsolescence leaves General Motors in the dust." to quote an Albert Shanker column. There was "look-say" reading which led to years of illiterates then "phonics first " became the cure all. And the "New Math" was created by people who really couldn't do math.
The higher educational system became the employer of last resort for many 60s and 70s radicals-who else would hire them ?

[rayg]

[QUOTE=blackhawknj;590044]
There was "look-say" reading which led to years of illiterates then "phonics first " became the cure all. And the "New Math" was created by people who really couldn't do math.

Don't foergret thier was memmory spaeling also..That's how I leerned to spell!

[lyman]

Did anyone try it? Read the link? It's straightforward and like the link says, intended as a visual aid for students to understand what happens in multiplication in a way that is unclear with the regular method. I really don't see the problem with this being another arrow in the math teacher's quiver.

if it helps a kid, great, but the 'old way' is still faster,