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Aren't classic contrived examples fine? "Jim has five apples then eats three..." Trying to make examples 'relevant to students' sounds like a recipe for cri
by mcpackieh 3y ago
Aren't classic contrived examples fine? "Jim has five apples then eats three..." Trying to make examples 'relevant to students' sounds like a recipe for cringe to me; adults who can do that effectively seem few and far between. "Jim catches 5 pokemans with his nintendo, then loses 3, how many pokemans does Jim have?"
Maybe that's a bit unfair, I guess they mean to do things like "Due to global warming, the ocean level rises 5mm per year, how much will it have risen in..." Teaching arithmetic framed in the context of climate science or something. Still, it seems hamfisted and cringe.
- rhaway84773 3y agoYour latter example makes no sense. There is absolutely no reason Jim had 5 Apples and ate 3 so how many does he have left needs to be changed to anything related to sea water level. When I learnt the greenhouse effect in school in the mid 90s, my curriculum absolutely linked it to sitting in a car and getting hot and also global warming as well as growing crops. All of which could continue in such a curriculum.
- mcpackieh 3y agoIf you're in an earth science class, then earth science themed examples are natural and unobjectionable.