and there was much rejoicing
Greg, are you saying that the study itself is pseudoscience? God I hope not. It was music to my ears—that is, if the study and its conclusions are legit, then they validate a lot of what I've been thinking about math education for the past few years.
We might want to focus on the math that kids are learning and just be a little less obsessed with the fact that they have to enjoy every minute of it
Yes. Thank you.
Even efforts to make math relevant may be irrelevant, says the study, released Wednesday.
Nations that try to teach math in terms of daily life have the lowest test scores.
*does happy dance*
Loveless says pleasing kids has comes at the expense of mastering skills.
*does backflip*
Math textbooks in the United States, for example, tend to have colorful photos, charts and stories to please kids, he noted. In other nations, the texts strictly have math.
Fennell said engaging, relevant lessons are important. But he agreed with Loveless that every lesson should be about teaching math, not simply providing a fun class activity.
Oh this is wonderful. Really, I could have told these people all of this for free!!!
So anyway, yeah, Greg, what exactly was pseudoscientific?
Greg, are you saying that the study itself is pseudoscience? God I hope not. It was music to my ears—that is, if the study and its conclusions are legit, then they validate a lot of what I've been thinking about math education for the past few years.
We might want to focus on the math that kids are learning and just be a little less obsessed with the fact that they have to enjoy every minute of it
Yes. Thank you.
Even efforts to make math relevant may be irrelevant, says the study, released Wednesday.
Nations that try to teach math in terms of daily life have the lowest test scores.
*does happy dance*
Loveless says pleasing kids has comes at the expense of mastering skills.
*does backflip*
Math textbooks in the United States, for example, tend to have colorful photos, charts and stories to please kids, he noted. In other nations, the texts strictly have math.
Fennell said engaging, relevant lessons are important. But he agreed with Loveless that every lesson should be about teaching math, not simply providing a fun class activity.
Oh this is wonderful. Really, I could have told these people all of this for free!!!
So anyway, yeah, Greg, what exactly was pseudoscientific?
posted by Matt | 12:02 PM
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Oh--it may or may not be pseudoscience. I didn't even really RTFA. I just threw out a buzzword because it felt good at the time. It didn't make initial sense to me, so it (thus) must be pseudoscientific. (In other words, it was kind of a poorly executed joke.)
However, perhaps I should RTFA... as there are a number of potential confounding extraneous variables (i.e., cultural values) that may differentially affect math performance (other than whatever educational arguement may have been presented.)
I don't know if the article will give you enough detail... I found the actual report, though. It's a lot longer than the article. :(
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