And the democrats response was literally hysterical, because WE WANT TO EAT PLASTIC AND TAKE OZYMPIC. HE'S A SCAMMER.
It literally blows my mind. Idk how you can look at a guy who's thing is "maybe we shouldn't be so fat and on drugs" and the response from half the country is just mass hysteria.
My argument is "The functional reading level of 60% of the population is 6th grade. What exactly are they doing?"
It's like boomers (democrats) literally like can't see how stupid, sick and iliterate our country is. I don't understand, but the fact half the population can't read an instruction manual is MASSIVELY concerning to me. But they don't even care.
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We don't have this in my part of Europe. I've seen a couple of such math examples over the years, and... tbh completely honest, I do find some of them as neat examples of how to think differently about math. And I would have liked to be shown some of them as a kid.
BUT, a kid shouldn't be graded on whether he understood and can apply the random common core tricks (which from what I've seen, they apparently are). Just give him 63x9, and let him choose whatever method he wants to solve that.
If he can draw the rectangles on paper, or in his mind, as fast or faster than I can use the traditional method, why stop him from using it? I think it can be useful to show different methods, just in case one of them clicks better for someone than the traditional method, and they are faster then they would have been otherwise.
BUT DON'T waste too much class time on this. Show the thing once, let the kids know they can also do things this way if they like, but don't linger on it. And don't try to grade them on knowing all the methods. At the end of the school year, they really should just know the one that is fastest for them. And just grade the fucking end result.
> which from what I've seen, they apparently are
As a former student in the public indoctrination system I can confirm this to be true.
Usually a problem will be given x amount of points. You get a point for each step done correctly the way they taught you. Doing the problem in your head or in a way not prescribed to you will award you no points, even if you got the answer correct and showed your reasoning.
It's not about education, it's about instilling respect for authority.
i'd just do 60*9 (540) then 9*3 (27) and add them 567.
Idk why that's so hard.