#common core math

There are pros and cons to each method. Some people prefer the old method because it's fewer steps, and trying to go back and forth with the box diagram is confusing. Some people prefer the new method with the box diagram because it's easier to spot a mistake and because you can zone out without losing your place. And some people prefer their own methods because their brains work in unique ways, while other people would consider those methods to be total nonsense.

But this video is one of the worst arguments I've ever seen. If you prefer the old fashioned method, that's reasonable. But you can't accurately compare these two videos shown. One involves someone solving it who already knows how to do it and probably even rehearsed it for the video so they could do it as fast as possible. The other involves a teacher teaching it to a class of elementary school students for the first time and making sure to go slowly enough that every single student has a chance to speak up if they don't understand it. If it was compared to someone using the box diagram who already knew how to do it, it would only take a few extra seconds, and checking your work would be much easier.

Hurt/Comfort • Romance • Male Slash • Common Core Math • Out of Body Experiences

Imagine that, for decades, all the art taught in school was paint-by-number and kids with actual talent were get punished for painting outside the lines or using different colors. (I'm sure this happens in real life all the time... Just go with me here...)

Then a group of people get frustrated because there aren't enough artists and graphic designers so they get together and put out a list of standards that children should have basic knowledge of when they leave high school and so kids can jump right into an art program should they choose.

The thing is, teaching these standards means putting children in front of a blank canvas (or a less "ordered" canvas) and letting them explore how colors blend and how shapes and lines form an image

You would think parents would be behind this but they can only shout at you because now they can't follow the child's art homework. It makes them feel stupid. They conclude that "Art wasn't done this way when I was in school so it must be wrong. And you're trying to dumb down my kids!!!" They would rather be surrounded but comic sans and nauseating colors than feel inferior around their children.

Because that's exactly what the haters sound like. They would rather their children be tied to a calculator all their lives than learn how to explore numbers on their own. Only, in the case of math, people's lives could be in danger because the engineer put something in the computer software wrong and didn't have the intuitive number sense to see something wrong.

Meanwhile, kids with actual math talent are actually punished and suffer bad grades because they didn't do the problem EXACTLY like the book instructed even if they got the right answer.

Different people can prefer different methods.

For example, some people prefer the old school way of multiplying without the diagram showing each place value separately because they consider the old school way to be more straight forward. Some people prefer the diagram because it makes mistakes easier to spot.

Some people prefer addition by adding each column and carrying. For example, when solving 37+65, they'll add 7+5 to get 12, write the 2 in the answer and carry the 1, then add 3+6 plus the carried 1 to get 10, then get the final answer of 102. Some people prefer changing the numbers so one of them is divisible by 10, such as 40+62.

The top method is the method that most people are used to.

The bottom method is the method being taught today that people consider too complicated.

Yes. The methods really are that similar.