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<blockquote data-quote="confuzzled" data-source="post: 402679" data-attributes="member: 8831"><p>i forgot to mention something....contemporary math is extremely language based these days. (notice the ridiculous amount of word problems kids today do unlike when we were kids with 48 computation problems on a worksheet?!)</p><p> </p><p>if there is <em>any</em> difficulty with language, in any way, that could be something to look at if there are math issues. </p><p>if there is<em> any</em> difficulty or weakness with mastery of basic math skills, that could also explain sudden avoidance. kids dont have the tools to move on to more complicated math. (but hey, they can tell you what a polyhedron is!) </p><p> </p><p>and the reason schools are so insistant on doing it "their way" is because the methodology is tied into standardized testing...and you know about that--standardized testing there to test the schools, not the kids.</p><p>so it just might be detrimental to have a student body that heaven forbid can't recognize the egyptian lattice method of multiplication. (its irrelevant that any breating human being would never do multiplication that way and that most adults survived their whole lives without knowing it, lol)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="confuzzled, post: 402679, member: 8831"] i forgot to mention something....contemporary math is extremely language based these days. (notice the ridiculous amount of word problems kids today do unlike when we were kids with 48 computation problems on a worksheet?!) if there is [I]any[/I] difficulty with language, in any way, that could be something to look at if there are math issues. if there is[I] any[/I] difficulty or weakness with mastery of basic math skills, that could also explain sudden avoidance. kids dont have the tools to move on to more complicated math. (but hey, they can tell you what a polyhedron is!) and the reason schools are so insistant on doing it "their way" is because the methodology is tied into standardized testing...and you know about that--standardized testing there to test the schools, not the kids. so it just might be detrimental to have a student body that heaven forbid can't recognize the egyptian lattice method of multiplication. (its irrelevant that any breating human being would never do multiplication that way and that most adults survived their whole lives without knowing it, lol) [/QUOTE]
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