Sadly, it's a Grade 7 workbook that I bought during the days that I was teaching Junior High.
Too many students just want to know "how" so they can pass the test and don't want to know "why" so they can figure it out when they forget exactly "how" or when the problem has two steps instead of one.
And they don't believe that the learning never stops. I'm rediscovering things all the time. I find myself working things out (and actually using things like multiplying and factoring polynomials) because I want to know why some short cuts work or because I see a pattern in something or because a student give me a bizarre answer that works! (It took a while, but I figured out why it worked and when it wouldn't.)
Basically, I'd like them to just freakin' think!
TS
Basically, I'd like them to just freakin' think!
TS
Good for you:).
Egyptians used old math to design and build the pyramids.
Egyptians used old math to design and build the pyramids.