To: ExTxMarine
Given your description and providing she breaks no mathematical laws & algebraic rules to arrive at her answer. Your daughter is a potential real mathematician!
It sounds like she has the necessary gifts.
That should be nurtured!
Her HS math teacher by his statement demonstrates he is a NEA union slug and barely understand his subject!
27 posted on
06/13/2011 8:10:02 AM PDT by
Reily
To: Reily
It sounds like she has the necessary gifts. That should be nurtured!
Thank you, I do try to encourage her.
That's the part that gets me so dang angry! Instead of asking her how she sees the problem and works the problem, he simply marked her WRONG! I have been working with her and tell her to continue to do the work the way she sees it in her head - THAT is how you develop intelligence! Not by forcing her to do things your way!
28 posted on
06/13/2011 8:23:39 AM PDT by
ExTxMarine
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