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In reply to the discussion: How would you answer this 1st grade test question. Explain your reasoning. [View all]I mean unless I am way out of touch and this is what 1st graders are learning. Maybe children develop abstract and concrete learning at earlier stages now.
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How would you answer this 1st grade test question. Explain your reasoning. [View all]
madfloridian
Nov 2014
OP
Hmmm. Interesting. I've been reading your comments throughout the thread and they make sense
stevenleser
Nov 2014
#188
I am with you .... make a ten. I take it the (14 - 4) makes the ten. =
Tuesday Afternoon
Nov 2014
#45
The idea is to "make a 10" because it's easier to subtract from 10 than from a larger number. Why?
demwing
Nov 2014
#115
Freakin gibberish is WTF that is! I wouldn't even call it a math problem and I got as far as
brewens
Nov 2014
#9
It is simple. It's just hard for those of us that learned the memorization methods of old.
AtheistCrusader
Nov 2014
#175
This IS simple math. 14-6! Except they are teaching a specific way to calculate inside one's head.
Threedifferentones
Nov 2014
#180
Because if they are foreign, they can be much more abused than American citizens
Wella
Nov 2014
#135
That question is incoherent to educated adults (see the responses on this thread)
Yavin4
Nov 2014
#23
Wrong. A kid is going to be exposed to this for the first time, and learn the method.
AtheistCrusader
Nov 2014
#174
We have a high percentage of foreign born in our district, and that has always been my argument
pnwmom
Nov 2014
#28
Actually I agree, but they were excetional math students, better than many US-born kids.
U4ikLefty
Nov 2014
#31
WHAT??????????????? I actually WAS one (English Lit here), and I say this "question" is BIZARRE.
WinkyDink
Nov 2014
#109
I'm sure many things make sense to those "taught to understand." Scientology, e.g. The POINT,
WinkyDink
Nov 2014
#171
This shit is why I can't help my 5th grader with homework anymore. n/t
DeadLetterOffice
Nov 2014
#26
I have to agree - in the 70's, getting to algebra in high school was something
bhikkhu
Nov 2014
#169
Is the question worded the same way that the lessons are worded in class?...nt
SidDithers
Nov 2014
#38
14-6=14-(4+2)=14-4-2=10-2=8. That's how I'd do it without the instructions. (nt)
stone space
Nov 2014
#77
Really? Because as a small child I would've just said "14 - 6 = 8." Simplicity itself.
WinkyDink
Nov 2014
#111
First, I would go to class on the days when they explained how to get the correct answer...
Iggo
Nov 2014
#84
Is he taught to draw a block of 10, and of 4, cross out the 4, and then draw another block of 10?
muriel_volestrangler
Nov 2014
#98
Obviously, some of need a few refresher courses. I'll let Tom Lehrer explain it:
Buns_of_Fire
Nov 2014
#122
That was great! Better to understand what you're doing rather than get the right answer.
madfloridian
Nov 2014
#129
"rather than get the right answer." I'll take the right answer any day with my doctors.
WinkyDink
Nov 2014
#172
I'm going through this with my grandkids right now. They live with me and we do review every day.
OregonBlue
Nov 2014
#126
Yes, it seems to be a new way of thinking and learning both math and reading and it seems to work.
OregonBlue
Nov 2014
#187
The notion is that adding or subtracting to and from a "ten" is quicker and easier
Codeine
Nov 2014
#133
So added steps are preferable to just knowing the values? "14" isn't exactly the national budget.
WinkyDink
Nov 2014
#173
A better question might be "Can you do this problem with your smart phone?" n/t
Contrary1
Nov 2014
#155
Horrible, stupid, no good very bad question. It's a setup to discourage early.
ancianita
Nov 2014
#157
14-4-2, because take away 4, get 10, 2 left of the original six, subtract 2 from 10, bingo.
AtheistCrusader
Nov 2014
#177
This method involves more steps, but less combinations of numbers to be memorised
muriel_volestrangler
Nov 2014
#183
Yes, let's have one more bit of knowledge never to be memorized. We can call school
WinkyDink
Nov 2014
#190