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[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 36 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Hang on.

The answer is printed right on there.

[-] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

The question is if that answer is correct though lol

[-] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago

Thus, there is no point bothering me, I just know.

[-] pjnick@ttrpg.network 24 points 10 months ago

I'm very distracted by the fact that the answer given by number 2 is wrong.

Crazy how someone can go throw the process of writing and illustrating a math problem only to fail to count to 10.

[-] gibmiser@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago

Looks like it's part of the assignment to check the answer if it is correct.

[-] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

What's going on with the visualization to the right of it? I can't make heads or tails of how you're supposed to use it lol

[-] magiccupcake@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago
[-] SteveTech@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

Idk, it looks like it's part of the same question, so solving 19+14 is a little pointless when solving 19+45.

[-] SaintWacko@midwest.social 13 points 10 months ago

"Because that's how math works"

[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 7 points 10 months ago

If you can't "explain it to your grandma", then you don't know.

[-] Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 10 months ago

source: it came to me in a dream.

[-] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 10 months ago

Is this how they teach addition these days?

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I remember my grandma chiding me for not memorizing log tables in school. Times change, and primary educational theory is hardly in the zeitgeist.

I'm not an expert, but most changes from what "we" (which I'm taking anyone aged 5-10 between 1980 and 2000 roughly) experienced to what "kids nowadays" (there are two epochs, 2000-2010, 2010-now) experience are due to the greater availability of data tools

With data and technology being more available the way math is taught had to change (although we have calculators with us permenantly now, so we need to rote-memorize less, we need to focus more on what the calculator is doing behind the scenes so we understand the processes), in order to ameliorate the other issue: stratification of learning between rich/poor, and between NA/LATAM/AMEA/EU

When you actually read the requirements, and compare them to the image, it makes a bit more sense

Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them

Reason abstractly and quantitatively

Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others

Model with mathematics

Use appropriate tools strategically

Attend to precision

Look for and make use of structure

Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning

Without wanting to be too glib, how would one differently integrate the above bullet points into an educational schema that allows flexibility for different learning styles, classroom environments, levels of literacy, competency, variations in age/development/background/homelife, disabilities over the course of 5 years while tracking other learnings in key educational areas to complement the syllabus?

These things get a bad reputation but the moment to attempt to tackle the problem yourself, you start to see how massively complex and difficult it is.

[-] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 10 months ago

Um...

I just meant that it looks more effort to count and lassoo the tens and ones than it is to just add it up the old fashioned way with a "doorstep".

[-] DarthFreyr@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Are you perhaps saying that trying to teach an understanding of a concept like place value or carrying is more complicated than just getting the answer to an arithmetic problem? I have no idea why that should be the case, where would you get such an idea anyway?

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

well that's the point I was making, there is no "just"

[-] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

I know... we never had these graphical things to help us, yet we somehow managed to learn it...

[-] TheSambassador@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

It's almost like teachers have developed new ways to teach that are different but maybe a more effective way for kids to learn.

People always get so weird about newer math teaching techniques. I get that it's new and doesn't make sense to us because it's not how we learned, but the kneejerk reaction of "this is obviously worse than how I learned" without any understanding of the method or why it might teach better fundamentals is... Silly

[-] suodrazah@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago
[-] poopsmith@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I assume the question is "Which answer is correct?" or "Do you think the answer is correct?" or something along those lines.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Are we gonna talk about #2 ????

[-] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Read the text at the top of the page

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

The text that can't be read because it's cut off?

[-] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

"answer is correct? Tell us how you know"

[-] Koof_on_the_Roof@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

They just DONT KNOW!

[-] Amphobet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago

"I paid attention to the lesson."

[-] neptune@dmv.social 4 points 10 months ago

Carry the one

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