KIDS 'NOT COMFORTABLE' WITH 9+6

[Soso0]

Click on link to watch the video.
http://www.wnd.com/2014/09/common-core-teacher-kids-not-comfortable-with-96/

Asserting that young U.S. schoolchildren may not be “comfortable” solving a simple addition problem such as 9+6, a Common Core math teacher is providing a minute-long, abstract explanation of how kids can add an extra step to avoid the number problem.

Thursday on Fox News’ “The Five,” host Greg Gutfeld shared a “Homework Helper” video in which the teacher, Ilene Ryan, states, “Our young learners might not be altogether comfortable thinking about what 9+6 is. They are quite comfortable thinking about their friend, 10. Ten is emphasized in our young grades as we’re working in a base 10 system. So if we can partner nine to a number and anchor 10, we can help our students see what 9+6 is.”


The teacher then proceeds to “decompose” the six, explaining that the number is “made up of parts,” including one and five. She then “anchors” the nine to the one to make 10 and adds 10+5 to get 15.

“Partner, anchor, decompose?” Gutfeld asked. “That’s not math. That’s ‘The Silence of the Lambs!’”

The instruction video was posted on YouTube, where it has received more than 150 comments, including the following one from a poster known as “pastorart1974″:

“The young Marine, on the battlefield, knows his rifle has a 15 round [magazine]. He has fired 6 rounds already. His sergeant asks how many rounds he has left. During the Vietnam War, the Marine replies, 9!

“In our next war, by the time our young Marine figures out the answer, he and his sergeant have been killed by the enemy.”

Other reactions include the following:

“[T]his effort to ‘dumb down’ the basics for the sake of a touchy feely approach is beyond me. Why wouldn’t I feel ‘uncomfortable’ about adding 9+1? Additionally, decomposing 6 involves an additional math step. “
“Let me get this straight, 9+6 is ‘uncomfortable’ but 1+5 and 1+9 are not.  What!?  ‘Our friend 10.’ Seriously!? Whoever thought this was a good idea needs to be punished in the worst possibly way. They should be forced to do all the Common Core homework.”
“I think I just had a stroke. … Why would I want my grandchildren to be subjected to this nonsense?  What self-righteous idiot sits around and thinks up this cr-p? Then we wonder why we are NOT the leaders in education.”
“And this is the exact reason when a young person hands me change from a $20 on a $16.38 bill, they freak out. They are trying to figure out how to ‘decompose’ 38 cents instead of just doing SIMPLE MATH. Hell, they even have a machine to tell them how much money to actually hand me back!”
“Close all government schools and fire all government teachers ASAP.”
“Honestly, I’m starting to think this is all part of some plan to destroy us from within. “
“There’s a very particular reason common core isn’t synonymous with common sense.”\
“9 + 6 = 15 … Look, I solved it while also skipping the bulls–t.”

http://www.wnd.com/2014/09/common-core-teacher-kids-not-comfortable-with-96/

Too hilarious. Shame on the common core teachers.

[DietCoke]

[aldra]

'our friend 10'?

wtf, make math easier by adding more unnecessary steps

[Rodrat]

What is this common core shit I keep hearing about?

[aldra]

new standardised US public school cirriculum... it's, uh, interesting, from what I've read

[fanglekai]

This makes me lawl even harder about the shit I'm doing for an engineering degree.

[Soso0]

What is this common core shit I keep hearing about?

Some shitty curriculum to catch the US up with the rest of the world. Looks like it's gonna do the opposite.

[Σ]

I have seen some outrage over this whole 9+6 thing but think about it if someone comes up to you and is like "QUICK! WHATS 9+6?!" its very likely you will at that moment have to quickly count in your head "9, 10, 11, 12". But if you teach kids that 9+6 is the same thing as 10+5 it will become apparent to them that 9 + 6 isnt just that. Its 10 + 5, 8 + 7, and a massive range of other numbers it could add out to.

Its teaching kids how flexible numbers really are and that whatever numbers you are looking at that need adding are also other numbers in disguise. Its just a shortcut showing numbers have different identities that once learned is actually very useful.

[peopledocare]

When Sandy hit, we lost power for about 5 or six days IIRC. At its peak, gas lines stretched 4 or 5 blocks. I've never seen a hurricane send people into a state of panic like it did here. We're used to flooding every time a bad hurricane hits, but the downed trees had exploding transformers look like lightning every 5-10 minutes.

[Rodrat]

9+6 is some of the easiest stuff to grasp. 9+ anything is always ten minus the 1 to that number.

9+4=13
9+5=14

How hard is that?

[Soso0]

9+6 is some of the easiest stuff to grasp. 9+ anything is always ten minus the 1 to that number.

9+4=13
9+5=14

How hard is that?

That's all I had to say to my little brother and he quickly caught on. If I tried teaching him what was shown in the video it would probably just confuse him and make him hate math all together.

[fanglekai]

quick man how do you integrate xe^(2x)? LOL

[Soso0]

quick man how do you integrate xe^(2x)? LOL

By using PEMDAS

[fanglekai]

not quite lol

[Σ]

9+6 is some of the easiest stuff to grasp. 9+ anything is always ten minus the 1 to that number.

9+4=13
9+5=14

How hard is that?

I feel like this is the general idea they are getting at. A very easy idea to comprehend. But its important to note that we can see that 9+n = 10+(n-1) this also leads to 8+n = 10+(n-2) and so on and so forth. If you can get this idea into a students head it really does make math easier. They just cant explain it worth shit.