It started as a joke. Math students at Oakwood Grade School asked to skip one of the units. “It was overcomplicated, and so we decided, well, if we’re not going to use that every single day, then we can figure out how to change it,” Madelyn Lapenas, an eighth grader at the school, said. Their plan is to change the curriculum so that students across Illinois learn math skills they say they will actually use in their everyday lives, like how to balance a checkbook, budget and save money.
You can never improve yourself until you are challenged with the most difficult problems.
JFK stated that we would shoot for manned exploration of the moon not because it was easy but that it was hard. The taxes from that technology was many times the cost of the NASA budget.
I have a graduate STEM degree and I have lectured to high school students, reminding them that
they are young and their minds are still growing!
Tommy Paine
2 years ago
Oh the irony!!!!!!!!! Laws for mandating math classes to teach kids how to balance a checkbook from grown adult legislators elected to balance the state’s checkbook but never do. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You can’t make this stuff up!
Last edited 2 years ago by Tommy Paine
Hello, Indiana!
2 years ago
Better yet, get Taco Bell or MacDonalds to give them cash registers and teach them only how to run them. They will then have more time to explore their sexuality, study the evils of capitalism and CRT. The fast food companies can then bring job applications to the schools when they pick up the unbroken or not stolen registers at the end of the school year.
debtsor
2 years ago
Balance a checkbook? LOL I can look at the app on my phone and my up to the minute balance is right now, with all the credits and debits. The purpose of higher level math isn’t necessary the ‘math’ you learn but it’s using areas of your brain that activates critical thinking.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
You can never improve yourself until you are challenged with the most difficult problems.
JFK stated that we would shoot for manned exploration of the moon not because it was easy but that it was hard. The taxes from that technology was many times the cost of the NASA budget.
I have a graduate STEM degree and I have lectured to high school students, reminding them that
they are young and their minds are still growing!
Oh the irony!!!!!!!!! Laws for mandating math classes to teach kids how to balance a checkbook from grown adult legislators elected to balance the state’s checkbook but never do. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You can’t make this stuff up!
Better yet, get Taco Bell or MacDonalds to give them cash registers and teach them only how to run them. They will then have more time to explore their sexuality, study the evils of capitalism and CRT. The fast food companies can then bring job applications to the schools when they pick up the unbroken or not stolen registers at the end of the school year.
Balance a checkbook? LOL I can look at the app on my phone and my up to the minute balance is right now, with all the credits and debits. The purpose of higher level math isn’t necessary the ‘math’ you learn but it’s using areas of your brain that activates critical thinking.