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Some school districts in the bay area are doing better than San Francisco. In the Los Gatos school district my daughter completed her first year of college lev
by maire 8y ago
Some school districts in the bay area are doing better than San Francisco.
In the Los Gatos school district my daughter completed her first year of college level calculous and some second year calculous by the time she graduated from high school. This was better than my education as I only had access to pre calculus in my high school.
As an aside - giving kids math puzzles is a much better preparation for math than memorization. The only thing I had to memorize was the multiplication table, everything else I could derive. I could always derive a formula faster than memorizing it even at a young age. I went to school in the era of "new math" where we were introduced to functions and variables in 2nd grade.
- rmah 8y agoI don't think anyone is suggesting that more advanced high school level math should be transformed into an exercise in memorization. They're talking about kids that are 7 or 8 years old memorizing their multiplication tables.
- maire 8y agoWe might be saying the same thing since the only thing you need to memorize is the multiplication tables. ;-) How long can that possibly take? My grandsons are between 3 and 8 - so they are in this age group. They are amazing at solving problems when it leads to something they want like winning a game against their brother. Puzzles are great for teaching math to this age group.