Individual teachers are often not to blame for what's taught. I still remember my cousin (a now-retired HS teacher at our cross-town rivals) bitterly disappointed that the district wouldn't let her teach Latin, which would have been a great benefit for students in the vocabulary portion of the SAT....UNI88 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 5:07 pmI know you're not (putting blame on teachers).
The teachers union where I taught was actually pretty good. They looked out for the teachers' best interests but they also considered what was in the best interests of the students. But that was a unified district (unusual in Illinois) with over 7,000 students, so union leaders were full-time teachers. I was a sub so I didn't need to belong but they would ask for my opinion and invite me to their events. The Chicago Teachers Union on the other hand ...
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Most folks will never need more than simple arithmetic, but the smart kids need to understand math at a level deeper than routine computationAZGrizFan wrote: ↑Wed Mar 31, 2021 12:30 pmThat's why I said incorporate real-world uses. Everyone I know says "why do I need to learn about adding letters together????" Use personal finance and other real-world financial examples and incorporate teaching of algebra that way....and newsflash, most folks are never going to have to use algebra to expand (4x2 + 8x + 4), but if you applied it correctly they would understand what its uses really are.
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