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What does effectively mean here? Do you mean to somehow catch the remedial kids up to the advanced kids, or just help everyone move at the pace they're capable
by ndriscoll 4y ago
What does effectively mean here? Do you mean to somehow catch the remedial kids up to the advanced kids, or just help everyone move at the pace they're capable of? Having everyone move at the pace of the most advanced is obviously not possible, but why do you need specifically efficient remedial teaching for them to move at an appropriate pace?
- zozbot234 4y ago> but why do you need specifically efficient remedial teaching for them to move at an appropriate pace? Maybe you wouldn't if all teaching was appropriately structured. But remedial instruction is where the flaws of the nowadays-conventional approach of expecting students to "inquire" about math on their own and come up with their own ways of problem-solving are most evident.
- ndriscoll 4y agoI'm not sure I understand still; when I was a student I found my classes to move at a tediously slow pace, often going into detail about and even repeating obvious things. Even in university engineering classes (e.g. walking through "Fourier's trick" multiple times when it's just a dot product/projection). You seem to be saying we need more of that (and maybe that's true for most people!). Wouldn't that mean tracking is a better solution? Let the advanced kids who can quickly understand/infer the ideas and techniques move on, and walk through the details/give lots of practice to the other kids?