«I can't imagine that if it was optional for students to come in on Saturday at any of my other schools, any of them would,»
says algebra teacher Anna Cabral.
Not exact matches
Gilbert
says a
teacher can get an education certificate in English,
algebra, biology, and history - but not in computer science.
It is like a mathematics
teacher in high school who might
say to a student, «Verily, verily I
say unto thee, except thou canst do decimals and fractions, thou canst in no wise do
algebra.»
Jane Baton, who identified herself as a local
algebra teacher,
said she was concerned about standardized testing when it came to students» math aptitude, and
said rigidity in the system is not good for students.
A typical
algebra teacher might
say, «Okay, class, we're in chapter seven, section one dash two.»
He
says the virtual space will allow
teachers to «turn a geometry or
algebra lesson into a more efficient way of building a roof on your virtual house.
A math
teacher might
say, «Getting an «A» on an
algebra final raises self - esteem just as much as doing a self - portrait in art class.»
Dr. Kendall
says teachers now laugh when he tells them that it was once possible to graduate from Braintree High School without ever taking
algebra.
«I can
say without a doubt there is a direct correlation between the students in
algebra and their understanding of variables in science,»
said Tim Hall, an 8th grade
algebra and science
teacher at Totem.
«If the SIG grant wasn't there, we wouldn't have started an
Algebra class for the first time,»
said Tim Hall, a math
teacher at Totem Middle School in Marysville, Wash. «It went very well.
It has always been true that
algebra students need to master variables in order to move on to factoring, for example, but ninth graders weren't always so adept at understanding that, Kylee's
teachers said.
Klein
says there should be a filter to get into this course, to ensure that would - be
teachers already have fluency in arithmetic and elementary
algebra procedures before enrolling.
Say that a
teacher has devised a powerful way to teach 8th grade
algebra, or to help English language learners master the language more rapidly, or to run a creative writing program in grade 5.
«You have a lot of kids who get pushed into
algebra when they're not ready,»
said Mark Stolan, a math
teacher at Quimby Oak Middle School in San Jose.
«An English
teacher said he was judged on student progress — in
algebra and geometry.
At Chelsea Career and Technical High School in Manhattan, where
teachers tried out an
algebra exam, Margaret Glendis, the math assistant principal,
said she liked what she saw — an hour - and - a-half test with only five multipart problems, each of which got harder in gradual steps.