Many of us chose public school, but even when it's your choice, you can feel stuck with it sometimes. [:)] Anyway, that's why I've named one of my blog...
... The commenter's comments become fodder for the search spider. That is, you as a commenter might post different keywords than what I've put in my post. So...
"A child who doesn't learn certain math content in elementary school has little chance of becoming a doctor, engineer or scientist," said W. Stephen Wilson, a...
That quote really says it all. My daughter loves animals and she frequently talks about wanting to be a veterinarian or to work with the animals at Sea World....
Hi members of the Beyond TERC message board. This board is broadly defined to include those who are coping with TERC math, those who are afterschooling, those...
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This is a reprint, but it's recent, and some of you may not have read it. It's one of my blog entries, written to answer a second grade teacher's concerns...
Hello Wendy, I'm a new member of this list but "old" to the math curriculum controversy. You mentioned you are from Minnesota and I just wanted to point out...
Here's a web site in Germany: http://www.beteronderwijsnederland.nl/?q=book/print/685 Scroll down a few pages, then you'll see mention of my name, and my ...
That¹s so cool! Ed studied German; it¹s possible he¹ll know enough to read..... Neat! Catherine J Re:Beyond TERC has gone all the way to Germany Thats so...
I may be crazy, but that doesn¹t look like German to me..... Re:Beyond TERC has gone all the way to Germany I may be crazy, but that doesnt look like German...
Wow, that translation was hard to trudge through, but I think I got the gist of it. Yikes, even in Holland! Thank you for doing that translation for us. ...
As to ³color me stupid,² I was thinking the passage was in one of the Scandinavian languages. Holland, I believe, has one of the main constructivist math...
... the ... institutions ... math ... new "constructivist" ... member of ... the "New ... the ... much more ... Institute ... properly ... teachers ... these ...
... "Debra" <debbiesheffield@...> wrote: "ONE WAY to problem solve" ... Boy did you hit the nail on the head. I would add another one--now all children must...
Yup, I agree with you both. I have to say that reform math DOES teach (or encourage discovery of) multiple ways to approach a problem. Just look at the...
Your comments created a BIG "ah-hah!" moment for me. It helped me understand why constructivist teaching is not optimal for both my kids – a 15 year-old boy...
Tex, you wrote <snip> ... I never thought of this before. In my experience, constructivist math curricula seem cause as much trouble for girls as for boys....
Continuing with the recent thread, brain studies do show that girls have more connecting fibers between the left and right hemisphere. Boys actually do have...
I was shocked when my 11 and 13 year olds had never seen this, nor did they realize, for example, that the fraction 13/67 actually meant 13 divided by 67 and...
... meant ... that ... They used Everyday Math in 5th grade and some constructivist hodge podge that the teacher cobbled together in 6th. Regarding the ...
Parents who get trapped by teachers with the explanation that "the curriculum" does not allow students to meet state standards are being made fools of. A...
Joe In our district, teachers are forbidden from supplementing the prescribed math curriculum with any other materials including materials currently on our...
... wrote: solve the problem just as you would have your child solve a math problem. ... I'm not sure what you're getting at. Do you mean talk to the teacher? ...
Isn't the school committee elected? Don't you have members? The focus should be on the district, and not on the curriculum, since quite clearly the bureaucrat...
some constructivist hodge podge that the teacher cobbled together in 6th Whoa That¹s enough to curl your hair The fact that so many of us are teaching our...
