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It's hard to know exactly what would work for ALL students. Honestly, for me, the issue is "one size fits all" that the vast majority of our students get. I l
by socrates1998 11y ago
It's hard to know exactly what would work for ALL students.
Honestly, for me, the issue is "one size fits all" that the vast majority of our students get.
I learned math just fine the way it was taught. Sure, it was boring at times, and I was mathematically inclined, but it worked for me.
For others, it clearly doesn't work.
We have to ask ourselves, what exactly do we want people to know who don't want to learn math. What is the "bottom line" that we need a citizen to know?
Algebra 2? Trig?
Some combination of Algebra and basic math finance concepts?
That's the main question. And it's very difficult to answer for ALL students.
I don't know what the answer is, but adopting one method for all students isn't the answer.
- SobolevSpaces 11y agoBack when I was in high school, they used to break my class into to groups: those who study German and those who study English. I was in English class. I don't see why this won't work for mathematics. Break students into two groups: ones that never question anything and those who can't move forward until their why questions are answered in a satisfactory manner. The first group can study precalculus, computational analysis, matrix methods....basically anything that can be done by rote. The second group could be introduced to proof writing, beginnings of set/category theory, abstract algebra/topology, statistical inference...