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Education

madfloridian

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4. My experience as an elementary grade teacher....we DID that.

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Wed Jul 23, 2014, 11:34 PM

Jul 2014

Lordy, all of us used pizzas, pies, cakes, we had flannel board cut-outs for the kids to use...I could go on and on.

What the teachers did in middle school and high school was more concrete, and mostly rote.

We in the primary grades taught 128 as 100 + 20 + 8, had them add subtract hundreds tens ones. We used sticks of ten blocks, then placed them on hundreds blocks, etc. etc.

I could go on and on.

Some responsibility must lie later on.

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Why Do Americans Stink at Math? [View all] elleng Jul 2014 OP

when we go metric we can get rid of useless things like multiplying/dividing fractions lol nt msongs Jul 2014 #1

They do and they don't. Igel Jul 2014 #2

Exactly. That's how my daughters' early math teacher taught, elleng Jul 2014 #3

Here is a lecture "On teaching mathematics" that you might find interesting... xocet Jul 2014 #5

My experience as an elementary grade teacher....we DID that. madfloridian Jul 2014 #4