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When schools try to teach a holistic sense of numeracy to connect with average students, with programs like Discovery, Tiger parents* revolt with stuff like htt
by gohrt 13y ago
When schools try to teach a holistic sense of numeracy to connect with average students, with programs like Discovery, Tiger parents* revolt with stuff like http://wheresthemath.com/ http://wheresthemath.com/
* Using Tiger parent as a trope here, not specific to any ethnicity.
- ISL 13y agoPerhaps that's because the parents find that their kids can't compute anything? With the students that I've seen in college physics/math courses, ability to solve real-world arithmetic/word problems quickly is limited at best.