Comments on: Math Instruction: An Inconvenient Truth http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/2008/02/21/math-instruction-an-inconvenient-truth/ Closing the Achievement Gap: Teaching Content Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:37:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: vital core http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/2008/02/21/math-instruction-an-inconvenient-truth/#comment-308 vital core Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:25:11 +0000 http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/2008/02/21/math-instruction-an-inconvenient-truth/#comment-308 <i>...children should actually understand the calculations they’re performing—transmogrified into “children should not be taught standard algorithms.”</i> The reason is simple: we do not wish to commit to the day-to-day effort that learning the fundamentals require. And hey, learning wrote facts is no fun. …children should actually understand the calculations they’re performing—transmogrified into “children should not be taught standard algorithms.”

The reason is simple: we do not wish to commit to the day-to-day effort that learning the fundamentals require. And hey, learning wrote facts is no fun.

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