One of the biggest failures of the educational system is the inability to provide a useful product. I’m fairly certain that if you sat those students down in a classroom labeled “math” on the door they’d get the answer correct. Or maybe if you handed them a scantron test. Because that’s where they leaned math, and that’s where they “use” math. Out of that element they have no ability to recall the answer, and probably won’t have the ability to connect the spoken numbers to the written input.
One of the reasons why schools need to tech practical subjects like home economics and industrial arts is to reinforce the book knowledge. Even music will introduce the concepts of counting, fractions and rhythmic math.
One of the biggest failures of the educational system is the inability to provide a useful product. I’m fairly certain that if you sat those students down in a classroom labeled “math” on the door they’d get the answer correct. Or maybe if you handed them a scantron test. Because that’s where they leaned math, and that’s where they “use” math. Out of that element they have no ability to recall the answer, and probably won’t have the ability to connect the spoken numbers to the written input.
One of the reasons why schools need to tech practical subjects like home economics and industrial arts is to reinforce the book knowledge. Even music will introduce the concepts of counting, fractions and rhythmic math.