Bloomburg: For too many American kids, math is not adding up

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Bloomburg: For too many American kids, math is not adding up

Published: Tuesday, November 18th, 2025 @ 1:23 pm
By: John Steed ( More Entries )

Many parents these days have great difficulty trying to help their children with math homework. The reason is that for almost two decades, schools have focused on the Bill Gates project of Common Core math, which is hard to understand for parents, but also often for the children themselves. It is easy to see in everyday life when young people working as cashiers no longer seem to be able to make change.

Bloomburg has just published an editorial on the decline of math abilities among American students. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-11-17/math-instruction-isn-t-adding-up-to-success-in-us-schools?srnd=phx-opinion

Even California is admitting that kids are getting to college and can't do middle school math, sometimes even first grade math.

https://nypost.com/2025/11/13/opinion/college-kids-math-skills-worse-than-ever-blame-pass-the-buck-schools/

The Beaufort County School Board last year continued on the Common Core Math tangent by adopting a new math curriculum aligned to Common Core called Bridges. One hopes that in the future, our schools will go back to traditional methods of teaching math which are proven to work instead of Common Core.

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Countrygirl1411 said:

( November 19th, 2025 @ 4:45 pm )

Steven, thank you for what you are doing on the school board. I suspect it is a battle since so many on the board are controlled/owned by Cheeseman.
"Students need to be taught how to think, not what to think." Amen to that. Many adults also need to relearn how to think for themselves instead of being told what to think.

Steven P. Rader said:

( November 19th, 2025 @ 9:07 am )

Countrygirl, there are many parents who feel the way you do about indoctrination in our schools. Here in North Carolina, a poll by the Locke Foundation found that 71% of NC parents are concerned about political indoctrination in the public schools. A poll taken by the respected French polling firm IPSOS in 30 countries on all five continents on parents concerns about the education system found that the United States was the only country among those 30 where the top education concern of parents was political and ideological bias in the classroom.

In the Beaufort County schools, we have a new science curriculum that will be coming up soon. One extremely high profile issue that is under debate in both science and in government / politics is whether and to what extent CO2 may cause global warming / climate change. As a school board member, I am already speaking out that we need a curriculum that fairly and objectively covers all sides of this issue. Students need to be taught how to think, not what to think.

Countrygirl1411 said:

( November 19th, 2025 @ 6:57 am )

IMO common core math is all about the dumbing down of the children. People who can't do math or even think for themselves are easier to control. That is why schools are now and for some time have been indoctrination centers instead of institutes of learning free thinkers. When I was growing up we weren't for the most part taught what to believe we were made to think and figure things out for ourselves. Sadly that is not the case any more for the students or the teachers. Years ago I learned that the teachers at least in grades K-12 are given what they are to teach, they don't have to do lesson plans as it is laid out for them what they will teach that day. Schools are all about control starting with the teacher and the students. People wonder why we are quickly moving away from freedom into socialism and communism.

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