M.J. McDermott is speaking about the current state of math Education, as a private citizen . KCPQ does not endorse this video.
Math Education: An Inconvenient Truth
Duration : 0:15:25
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New Math is trying …
New Math is trying to teach advanced math reasoning to beginners. Without a solid foundation in-yes-”rote calculation,” it won’t work.
It’s like teaching piano by having a virtuoso explain how it “feels” to play.
Sorry-unless you’re that one in 10 billion kid, you’re not going to be a concert pianist without years of rote drills including scales.
My experience with my kids is that new math is a disaster. With Saxon Math (old math) they jumped two grades ahead of public school in 6 months.
It upsets me that …
It upsets me that this woman has no idea what math actually is. Arithmetic is not mathematics. The math explorations book at least seems to be attempting to teach some problem solving instead of rote calculation.
My father had no …
My father had no professional connection to math. Didn’t even like it. Yet, if numbers were involved anywhere, percentages, sums, statistics, prices, measurements, he’d juggle, question and re-interpret then if there was nothing to it. You couldn’t pull a math wool over his eyes. Once while I was mad at the tedium of mult. table memorization, he shared that in his days he had to learn FRACTIONAL mult. tables. He showed me. There is a lot more of them, and harder to learn. But they worked for him
Yet this old way …
Yet this old way produced people like Euler, and Riemann, and Fermat, and Einstein etc. What has this willy nilly abandonment in favor of what may turn out to be a fad produced? People who need calculators to add two two digit numbers.
Yeah … you excel …
Yeah … you excel in them because you are being judged by the same system that “educates” you. I bet if you went to Russia or Japan, or Singapore, you’d flunk out badly. Badly.
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