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On the math side, the one thing that is supposed to make math real is story problems. And story problems seem to cause a lot of grief for a number of students
by derekp7 5y ago
On the math side, the one thing that is supposed to make math real is story problems. And story problems seem to cause a lot of grief for a number of students (I know that virtually no one in my class liked or could do well on story problems). However without them I don't think I would have advanced as much in math studies, because they did have that effect on me of making the raw numbers actually mean something.
- zozbot234 5y ago> And story problems seem to cause a lot of grief for a number of students Story problems are very badly taught in the U.S. schooling system. Other educational approaches use them more sensibly as gradual motivation for complex reasoning about arithmetic, and eventually algebra. A good review article on the subject: Persson, Ulf and Toom, André: Word Problems in Russian Mathematical Education, available at http://toomandre.com/my-articles/swedish/ULFENG.PDF http://toomandre.com/my-articles/swedish/ULFENG.PDF (Word Problems in Russia and America http://toomandre.com/travel/sweden05/WP-SWEDEN-NEW.pdf http://toomandre.com/travel/sweden05/WP-SWEDEN-NEW.pdf a more detailed article on the same topic, may also be worth reading.)