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This isn't a place for "some research points to this being better" we currently raised millions of children who _can_ do math just fine the current way. Do you
by dkhenry 12y ago
This isn't a place for "some research points to this being better" we currently raised millions of children who _can_ do math just fine the current way. Do you want to just change it because someone says they might have found a better way. This is the kind of change that should have happened over _decades_ slowly to prove its self not as one big political push with no real world example of broad success.
What happens when it turns out a combination of poor training of teachers and lack of exposure by parents combines to produce an entire generation that can't do the most basic of math problems. Who will be do the STEM work in this country when we don't have enough students who know basic math let alone calculus and beyond. Your betting the future of the American economy and society on this change you better have more proof for it then "we did a study"
- hga 12y agoThat was exactly how phonics were tossed in the middle of the last century, resulting in a huge cohort of people no longer being able to read, as scathingly detailed in the 1955 Why Johnny Can't Read (followed in 1958 with a small item in the Reader's Digest, "Why Johnny Can Read in Joplin", my home town; read that in the early-mid '70s from ones my grandmother saved). From memory, it was justified with a study of students at a University of Chicago associated school, i.e. lots of children of professors, they were obviously in the fairly large cohort that just pick up reading on their own. Those who don't were left to the tender mercies of Dick and Jane and their running dog Spot as Jerry Pournelle likes to put it, his wife used to successfully teach reading to the hardest of hard cases, juveniles in criminal detention.
- gnaritas 12y ago> we currently raised millions of children who _can_ do math just fine the current way Unfortunately that’s simply not true, we live in a culture where most people can't do math, and find it acceptable to not be able to. How math is being taught is simply wrong and those methods you're so resisting aren't new, they're decades old and they're already proven. > What happens when it turns out a combination of poor training of teachers and lack of exposure by parents combines to produce an entire generation that can't do the most basic of math problems. We're already there. You're just fear based and will resist any change whatsoever.