tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8705078887057341738.post4119784864584617462..comments2024-03-19T07:30:55.288-04:00Comments on Curmudgeon: Reform math or Keep it Traditional?Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04323026187622872114noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8705078887057341738.post-47017907006800975822013-02-10T15:12:10.522-05:002013-02-10T15:12:10.522-05:00This is all hogwash. You would all do well to reme...This is all hogwash. You would all do well to remember that in these "good old days" of the 50s, 60s, and 70s, it was acceptable for some people to be "good at math" and most people to feel like abject failures. Take a survey of folks who attended school during these decades. My money is on 80% of them claiming that they are not "math people." Ask them what makes some people "math people" and others not. They will tell you, they were fast and they just got it. This is unacceptable. Speed with procedures is NOT mathematics and yet it is the measuring tool that many victims of public education use to size themselves up, mathematically. In the "good old days" that many of you are inventing, school was not about educating all kids. It was about sorting kids out, the "cans" from the "cannots" and this was acceptable. This is not what education is about anymore; it is about education for ALL. And this is why everything you are saying about returning to a model meant for sorting is complete and utter nonsense. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8705078887057341738.post-2233765908908283542012-10-15T19:24:05.862-04:002012-10-15T19:24:05.862-04:00Replace "math" with "grammar" ...Replace "math" with "grammar" and you have the same complaint from me, an English teacher.Tom Panaresehttp://redlinesandhighlights.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8705078887057341738.post-4981260602197798532012-10-12T21:08:40.164-04:002012-10-12T21:08:40.164-04:00Connected Math makes me sad.Connected Math makes me sad.PeggyUnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8705078887057341738.post-15442825069477855972012-10-11T10:27:03.536-04:002012-10-11T10:27:03.536-04:00Curmudgeon-
This "freeskier" is also a ...Curmudgeon-<br /><br />This "freeskier" is also a parent (8 and 10 yrs.), who comments as one so as to not allow my 'professional opinions' to get me in trouble with my supervisors... <br />But to the point - as a parent, I recommend the website, "extra math" to you. It is being used by Clarendon Elementary to supplement my daughter's learning (she's way, way ahead of her peers).<br />Wouldn't you know? Timed calculation tests... just like the 40's, 50's and 60's.<br />Needless to say, my daughter (and son, for that matter) continue to pull away from their peers, mathematically.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8705078887057341738.post-67009613690687410942012-10-07T14:05:01.505-04:002012-10-07T14:05:01.505-04:00How much of the "learning disabilities" ...How much of the "learning disabilities" are just the fact that we are actually trying to educate these students now? The problem is of course that we are trying to give them a "College Prep" curriculum, but give it in such a watered down way that it does not prepare them for college...or anything else. Hands-on group discovery learning used to be called "Vocational", but that's now a bad word in education. Bill Bradleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8705078887057341738.post-8492515012594768242012-10-07T11:26:16.265-04:002012-10-07T11:26:16.265-04:00By the way, if you are on Facebook, feel free to j...By the way, if you are on Facebook, feel free to join the US Coalition for World Class Math FB page. https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/106924381709/Barry Garelickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01281266848110087415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8705078887057341738.post-13583424772684810892012-10-06T19:39:49.982-04:002012-10-06T19:39:49.982-04:00Thank you for linking to my article. You may be i...Thank you for linking to my article. You may be interested in a recent article about the pedagogical agenda in the Common Core Math Standards. http://www.educationnews.org/education-policy-and-politics/the-pedagogical-agenda-of-common-core-math-standards/Barry Garelickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01281266848110087415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8705078887057341738.post-12040246572378648742012-10-06T10:49:15.000-04:002012-10-06T10:49:15.000-04:00I went to school in the 50's and 60's (and...I went to school in the 50's and 60's (and 70's, 80's, 90's . . . what can I say?). There is no flipping way the education I am giving my students approaches the education I experienced and they won't approach the overall understanding I entered college with.<br /><br />They won't practice by doing one more problem than they feel :necessary".<br /><br />God help us.Ricochethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12594506449363717006noreply@blogger.com