Is reform math like “math investigations”, or did they find ANOTHER way to mess up math teaching?
It’s this kind of crap that makes me laugh when teachers say they have to work 11 hours a day and half the summer. They wouldn’t have to if they would simply re-use the workable lesson plans, and re-use the tests that correctly measured the children’s progress.
Why should we have to write 10,000 lesson plans for every stupid class we teach every single year? It’s the same class!! Math is Math, and why can’t we have a single lesson plan to teach math to every student in the country? I mean, other than that doing so would leave a lot of highly trained educators with little more than a lecture job?
No, not another exactly. They seem to be all the same thing but with different admixtures of simple and advanced, so that kids can’t become comfortable. Remember, these things are not chosen by teachers but imposed on teachers. Read the article, watch McDermott’s video, you’ll be morose.