There is a decided link to promoting eating more sugar and starch and the US population turning fat.
But, but, but The Government told us to eat more starches! So did all the Registered Dietitians! And Michelle Obama! I mean just look at the food pyramid. How could they all be wrong? It would have to be some kind of conspiracy for all the authorities to be so wrong on this.
Are you some kind of conspiracy theorist?
CCSS.Math.Content.1.OA.A.1 Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.1 CCSS.Math.Content.1.OA.A.2 Solve word problems that call for addition of three whole numbers whose sum is less than or equal to 20, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
Jason Zimba and William McCallum may be a competent mathematicians, but they do no't know how to write requirements, alternately if they do know how to write requirements and this is what they intended, then they are evil.
"“Like it or not, the standards allow a lot of freedom. People think the Common Core is a curriculum, and it’s not. The curriculum authors are going to interpret the standards in different ways,” Zimba said."
If you admit that the standard/requirement you wrote can be interpreted in many different ways, and I'll add in ways you don't agree with, you've just admitted your requirements were badly written.
Here let me give you an example:
Develop a high school math problem that will demonstrate that a "Mathematically proficient students start by explaining to themselves the meaning of a problem and looking for entry points to its solution."
Or from grade 4:
CCSS.Math.Content.4.MD.A.2 Use the four operations to solve word problems involving distances, intervals of time, liquid volumes, masses of objects, and money, including problems involving simple fractions or decimals, and problems that require expressing measurements given in a larger unit in terms of a smaller unit. Represent measurement quantities using diagrams such as number line diagrams that feature a measurement scale.
Now write a problem that demonstrates a fourth grade student's mastery of that.
Any fourth grade math problem that would show a students full mastery of that is a bad problem. There is too much there. Adding that requirement into a traceability matrix gives you the bullshit we see in common core math problems. These guys seem to know and understand math, and what a student should know, but they don't know how to write requirements.
Just because it's illegal or not authorized doesn't mean that they will stop. They'll simply continue and do their best to keep it hush hush
This is true. It also severely erodes the rule of law. As more mundane average productive Americans realize that they're following the rules but the government isn't, and get screwed by it, they'll start to realize they should only follow the rules when they would get caught. This is a recipe for an uncivil society leading to a societal collapse.
Or to paraphrase a saying from communist countries; They pretend to enforce the law and we'll pretend to follow the law.
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed -- it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer. -- A.J. Perlis