Elementary math education
Jul. 27th, 2009 10:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Too often elementary school teachers teach incorrect "mathematics" and also communicate to their students that mathematics is too difficult for ordinary mortals. "If my teachers doesn't understand this, I can't either." Such intellectual and emotional damage is so devastating that even a teacher who is mathematically competent will find it very difficult to undo.
(From "Is elementary education a concern of MAA members?" by Patricia Clark Kenschaft, MAA FOCUS, August/September 2009.)
Another article by the same author (2005): Racial Equity Requires Teaching Elementary School Teachers More Mathematics.
(From "Is elementary education a concern of MAA members?" by Patricia Clark Kenschaft, MAA FOCUS, August/September 2009.)
Another article by the same author (2005): Racial Equity Requires Teaching Elementary School Teachers More Mathematics.
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Date: 2009-07-28 04:03 am (UTC)Certainly I had such a perception about physics being impossible to understand because of a teacher who taught it incorrectly and incoherently.
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