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November 20, 2006
Moonbat Math
Posted by Dave Blount at November 20, 2006 7:48 AM
Math isn't warm and fuzzy enough for moonbats, so they have found a substitute to teach children. Called "fuzzy math," it takes the emphasis off drills and memorization and wanders off into touchy-feel theories about how children must find their own path to the answer. Unsurprisingly, it doesn't work.
One Seattle area mother complains:
When my oldest child, an A-plus stellar student, was in sixth grade, I realized he had no idea, no idea at all, how to do long division, so I went to school and talked to the teacher, who said, "We don't teach long division; it stifles their creativity."
As a result of flaky educators putting moonbattery ahead of insensitive 2+2=4 kind of stuff, the math skills of American kids lag way behind other parts of the world. Observes R. James Milgram, a math professor at Stanford:
There's increasing understanding that the math situation in the United States is a complete disaster.
But that's only the point of view of a mathematician. The educrats who design curriculums prefer dreamy theories about students constructing their own problem-solving strategies to boring multiplication tables. Consequently parents who want their kids to learn math are forced to hire tutors.
It's not that they aren't getting anything at all for the zillions of tax dollars that keep public schools afloat. The kids may not learn long division, but at least they're taught how to put condoms on cucumbers and all about the racist horrors of American capitalist exploitation.
On a tip from V the K.
