Is that a trick question? Or did Miss Vermont, who looks kinda scary, give the answer wrong?
This has got to be a parody.
Math, which is intuitively obvious, can be absorbed directly from the ether. It’s those damned unionized teachers that won’t grade on a curve, whatever that is, that ruin understanding.
Yet each of these girls was taught math in schools for 12 years.
So just what does the teaching of math accomplish if not a distain for math, or at the least, it teaches the young that they don’t understand math, so they reject. There is something wrong with the way we force math concepts on young children long before they have the developmental skills to grasp the logic behind the square root of 16.
When we ask an 8-year old to write about how they think about the square root of 16, as we do in our classrooms, you end up with adults like those in the video who know how to share their thought on math.
Is that a trick question? Or did Miss Vermont, who looks kinda scary, give the answer wrong?
This has got to be a parody.
Math, which is intuitively obvious, can be absorbed directly from the ether. It’s those damned unionized teachers that won’t grade on a curve, whatever that is, that ruin understanding.
Yet each of these girls was taught math in schools for 12 years.
So just what does the teaching of math accomplish if not a distain for math, or at the least, it teaches the young that they don’t understand math, so they reject. There is something wrong with the way we force math concepts on young children long before they have the developmental skills to grasp the logic behind the square root of 16.
When we ask an 8-year old to write about how they think about the square root of 16, as we do in our classrooms, you end up with adults like those in the video who know how to share their thought on math.