Sentences with phrase «teach the standard algorithms»
Some seem to believe it is easier to teach «high - level critical thinking» than it is to teach the standard algorithms with understanding.
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The standard algorithms for adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing whole numbers are the only rich, powerful, beautiful theorems you can teach elementary school kids, and to deny kids these theorems is to leave kids unprepared.
Parents accustomed to the «classic style» of teaching math — long worksheets of standard algorithms with one or two word problems at the bottom — worry about the unfamiliar presentation of their kids» homework, and many opponents have delighted in picking apart often inscrutable questions.
One reform program, Mathland, attained notoriety for replacing textbooks with kits of manipulatives and for delaying or omitting the teaching of standard algorithms.