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This is probably because the program you repeatedly suggest as the solution to all of the math education woes in the US has a distinct lack of statistically val
by evgen 17y ago
This is probably because the program you repeatedly suggest as the solution to all of the math education woes in the US has a distinct lack of statistically valid studies to back up the claims being made. It is popular among the homeschooling crowd but that does not mean it is effective or applicable at a larger scale (e.g. the LA unified school district alone has three times as many students as Singapore but only twice the budget, etc.)
- tokenadult 17y agoLA unified school district alone has three times as many students as Singapore but only twice the budget That's an interesting factual claim, which depends crucially on currency conversions between the United States dollar and the Singapore dollar. Do you have a link to a source for the factual statement, preferably one that "shows the work" (as a math teacher would say) by giving the school-age population numbers for each place and the all-sources primary education budgets for each place?