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I think you need both. If you teach maths in a JIT fashion, when do you learn "basic facts" like 3+4=7? If you don't teach that stuff systematically, how do s
by grass_is_green 3y ago
I think you need both.
If you teach maths in a JIT fashion, when do you learn "basic facts" like 3+4=7?
If you don't teach that stuff systematically, how do students get to the point where they feel they can apply maths reliably - e.g. adding prices together in their head?
So you need both - a solid foundation, plus applications using that foundation plus a bit more.
- heisenzombie 3y agoAbsolutely you need both. We agree there. And any reasonable curriculum - in practice - will be a combination. But the curriculum will still be organized in some fashion, it's a very high-level document after all. And that's where one or the other flavor will come through.
- alexvoda 3y agoI disagree that "3+4=7" is a basic fact of math. Basic facts of math are for example ZFC axioms of Set theory. I only learned some set theory in high school. My point being, that teaching math is unexpectedly surprisingly top-down, at least at first.
- grass_is_green 3y ago3+4=7 is what NZ primary school teachers mean when they say "basic facts." Source: I have two children in NZ primary schools.