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Anyone here real good at Algebra 2 (composition of functions)??
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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 548955" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>No, wiped out, you're an <strong>excellent</strong> teacher and your students are getting a real education they can understand and will carry them through their lives. </p><p></p><p>I had college professors who couldn't for the life of them figure out what was wrong with my children's generation that they couldn't do normal equations, most especially without calculators. Obviously, they'd never tried to help their child with homework. The younger the kids got, the worse the problem got. Spelling is no better. Here in younger grades they're encouraged to spell phonetically.....and are not marked wrong if they've done it that way on anything except the spelling list. This is carried out throughout high school. So now, as well as kids who can't do simple math, you have a vast number of kid who have no idea how to spell correctly even some of the simplest words. Nichole had a hard enough time with the dyslexia.......but add in the phonetic spelling junk, and she <strong>still</strong> has a hard time spelling words correctly. (although now she'll look them up for correct spelling)</p><p></p><p>Old methods worked and produced people like Einstein. Now granted, some kids have trouble with that method.....but like you Sharon, most good teachers can find an alternate way to help them learn. All this changing curriculum every time they turn around is confusing to the kids, and has got to be a nightmare for teachers to keep up with. And then you have those teachers just teaching for the proficiency tests......and I won't go near my soap box on that one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 548955, member: 84"] No, wiped out, you're an [B]excellent[/B] teacher and your students are getting a real education they can understand and will carry them through their lives. I had college professors who couldn't for the life of them figure out what was wrong with my children's generation that they couldn't do normal equations, most especially without calculators. Obviously, they'd never tried to help their child with homework. The younger the kids got, the worse the problem got. Spelling is no better. Here in younger grades they're encouraged to spell phonetically.....and are not marked wrong if they've done it that way on anything except the spelling list. This is carried out throughout high school. So now, as well as kids who can't do simple math, you have a vast number of kid who have no idea how to spell correctly even some of the simplest words. Nichole had a hard enough time with the dyslexia.......but add in the phonetic spelling junk, and she [B]still[/B] has a hard time spelling words correctly. (although now she'll look them up for correct spelling) Old methods worked and produced people like Einstein. Now granted, some kids have trouble with that method.....but like you Sharon, most good teachers can find an alternate way to help them learn. All this changing curriculum every time they turn around is confusing to the kids, and has got to be a nightmare for teachers to keep up with. And then you have those teachers just teaching for the proficiency tests......and I won't go near my soap box on that one. [/QUOTE]
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