This really has to be seen to be believed … so the picture is here for you to see. This is a page out of a workbook for your government school student. What school and what schoolbook I can’t tell you … maybe the lady who sent this to me will step forward and let us know.
This is how our government schools – and the liberals who run them – effectively brainwash (though indoctrinate is a much more polite word) our children into accepting the liberal philosophy as basic truth. This particular worksheet is meant to help your government student “understand the distributive property.” Now I’m not a dreary slouch at math … but this is the first time in my life I’ve ever heard of the distributive property. I strongly suspect that pretty much any student can move through school to a very successful life as a productive adult without ever having heard those words. Really … look at this Bolshoi. “6 groups of (3+5) = 6 groups of 3 + 6 groups of 5” I challenge any government school teacher to call the show today and tell me why this is important. What’s important is that the student be able to figure out what 3+5 equals (8) and that 6x8 = 48. CLICK
Do they even do "story problems" any more? Or is that for the "gifted" students?
Tommy set up a lemonade stand. Each cup of lemonade costs him two cents to make. He charges 10 cents per cup of lemonade. He sells 120 cups of lemonade the first day. The second day he sells 137 cups of lemonade. How many more cups of lemonade does he sell on the second day? What is his total profit from both days of sales?
Orthodoxy SUCKS.
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them."- Galileo Galilei
Quote: Palinista wrote in post #2Do they even do "story problems" any more? Or is that for the "gifted" students?
Tommy set up a lemonade stand. Each cup of lemonade costs him two cents to make. He charges 10 cents per cup of lemonade. He sells 120 cups of lemonade the first day. The second day he sells 137 cups of lemonade. How many more cups of lemonade does he sell on the second day? What is his total profit from both days of sales?
Why you evil free marketer you. How dare you consider polluting those innocent children's heads with the concept of profits ?
Quote: Palinista wrote in post #2Do they even do "story problems" any more? Or is that for the "gifted" students?
Tommy set up a lemonade stand. Each cup of lemonade costs him two cents to make. He charges 10 cents per cup of lemonade. He sells 120 cups of lemonade the first day. The second day he sells 137 cups of lemonade. How many more cups of lemonade does he sell on the second day? What is his total profit from both days of sales?
Why you evil free marketer you. How dare you consider polluting those innocent children's heads with the concept of profits ?
The kid wants to make money so he can buy something with his own funds! He's a good boy!
Orthodoxy SUCKS.
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them."- Galileo Galilei