Imagine if
we stopped teaching math to children over the age of 5, yet expected them to grow up to be totally proficient with math in their daily lives.
Not exact matches
It's like saying «most kids don't like doing
math, so we should
stop trying to
teach it.
Christi, who celebrates her twenty - fifth year of
teaching this year, says she doesn't use Facebook or Twitter, but Pinterest is a staple
stop for her, both for personal inspiration and idea bookmarking and for science and
math lesson planning.
«With
Maths for example, if you're
teaching Year 7 fractions and the student has missed something in Year 5 or 6, you often don't know at what point they
stopped understanding.
Then we must
stop trying to
teach reading the way we
teach math.
Because of the priority given to federal requirements in reading and
math, «we're getting a lot of teachers saying that their principals have come in and literally said, «
Stop teaching science,»» said Gerald F. Wheeler, the executive director of the National Science Teachers Association.
Educational experts who would use the CCSS as a justification for lowering
math fluency standards will only exacerbate the problem of trying to
teach algebra to 7th - graders who have to
stop every five seconds to calculate 6x8.