Curmudgeon

I believe that mathematics should be taught, not collaboratively explored; algebra and geometry are better than a vague course of Integrated Math; spiraling doesn't work nearly as well as learning it properly the first time; "I don't DO math" should be an incentive rather than an excuse. "I don't DO English" should be treated the same way.

About Me

Curmudgeon: I'm a high-school math teacher completely frustrated with new math, reform math, fuzzy math, the color of math, talking about math, literacy across the curriculum and all those other things that get in the way of students actually learning math, not to mention the ever-present "You need to help raise our scores by taking one day a week to go over test-taking skills" and other administrative folderol. (He/Him/Mr.)

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Curmudgeon

Pages

50-cent solution to Car Seat Deaths

Snap Judgements

Volumes

Those Seven Myths of Education

Workfare is Detention for Adults.

How much math do we use at Work?

Another student whining about School

Leap of Logic: Romeo and Juliet Updated

Texas Republicans are Against Higher-Order Thinking

Colleges' Math - Science Death March

Atari Founder will do what no one else can

Bill Gates and Teacher Spaghetti Sauce

Chinese Mothers and KIPP

Tortured Logic

On jumping to conclusions and historical data.

Science shouldn't be politicized.