[Speed Gibson,
Sunday February 4, 2007 at 1:37pm]
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SCSU Scholars has a YouTube video that you should see. It is a well done mini-documentary / exposé on the "new" math being taught in some elementary schools.
Only an "expert" could make something as simple, fast, and accurate as multiplication the old fashioned way into something unfocused, slow, and error-prone. As Dennis Prager often says, you have to go to graduate school to get this stupid.
Only an "expert" could make something as simple, fast, and accurate as multiplication the old fashioned way into something unfocused, slow, and error-prone. As Dennis Prager often says, you have to go to graduate school to get this stupid.
I've since been teaching her "traditional" multiplication and division and she seems to be doing better.
Thanks for posting this R5 - I now have some ammunition for the next parent-teacher conference!