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My wife teaches Algebra 1 and this is something she’s encountered with a few of her students. They’ve been able to get by more or less by using what we refer to
by thedanbob 2y ago
My wife teaches Algebra 1 and this is something she’s encountered with a few of her students. They’ve been able to get by more or less by using what we refer to as “advanced arithmetic” e.g. figuring out the variable in an equation by inspection rather than solving the equation. But of course that only gets you so far, and she’s worried they’ll bomb Algebra 2 next year. But no matter what she does they just can’t/won’t learn algebra.
- card_zero 2y agoYou mean like numerical analysis, where you stick values in until one works, and call that the answer?
- thedanbob 2y agoBasically. The questions were easy enough that they were doing it in their heads. She figured it out when she made them show their work, and their "work" turned out to be just plugging the right number into the equation.