Content in Mathematics
We’ve got to start focusing on CONTENT in our mathematics courses or we will continue to slip internationally. Discovery learning certainly has its place in other areas, but in mathematics we’ve got to focus on direct instruction of age appropriate content in order to catch ourselves up. Our children have really paid the price for our experiments in math ed over the last 20 years and are not prepared for global competition as a result.
Please stop the madness and just teach the math that students need to experience success in the future. I have confidence that our children can and will meet the challenge of a rigorous curriculum.
Mathematicians should play the central role in developing our math curriculum - as they do in most other industrialized countries which rank so much higher than the US on international competitions. Please encourage ed schools to experiment with something else for a while and let the mathematicians get on back on the right track.
This post was submitted by Lisa Jones.
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