Posted on 11/06/2021 6:49:09 AM PDT by devane617
California Tries to Close the Gap in Math, but Sets Off a Backlash Proposed guidelines in the state would de-emphasize calculus, reject the idea that some children are naturally gifted and build a connection to social justice. Critics say math shouldn’t be political.
But ever since a draft was opened for public comment in February, the recommendations have set off a fierce debate over not only how to teach math, but also how to solve a problem more intractable than Fermat’s last theorem: closing the racial and socioeconomic disparities in achievement that persist at every level of math education.
The California guidelines, which are not binding, could overhaul the way many school districts approach math instruction. The draft rejected the idea of naturally gifted children, recommended against shifting certain students into accelerated courses in middle school and tried to promote high-level math courses that could serve as alternatives to calculus, like data science or statistics.
The draft also suggested that math should not be colorblind and that teachers could use lessons to explore social justice — for example, by looking out for gender stereotypes in word problems, or applying math concepts to topics like immigration or inequality.
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What’s with all the double and quadruple postings this morning?
After a few years, the public school ran out of math classes to challenge him, so he transferred to the local community college in his junior year and finished high school with dual college credits. The high school pressured him so hard to stay in high school, all about the money.
Actually, the answer is 0, since her pimp took the rest...
America had better pray that some of its best children reach their full potential, somehow.
The Bell curve is a cold, hard reality. Cutting off the upper end just so that some deranged “educators” can poke at healing sores condemns everyone to live with less than even the average.
premise seems to be that everyone is good at everything, and kids are interchangeable parts
the very same math (calculus) that is performed on paper in physics and such are performed in (slow “learners”)their heads while on the football field and basketball court;distance, velocity and acceleration of the the ball and persons, requires differentiation and integration. They run away from in the classroom and to it on field and court.
How dare you assume there is a correct answer! Racist!
The answer is -$100. She had to give all of the remaining money to her pimp plus she owed him mo.
How much did she end up with?
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After he beat the living s..t out of her for holding out on him, she kept her life. Her pimp needs the money he has to beat out of her everyday - bit of a bore, but he does need the exercise.
We’re sinking faster and faster into the dystopian abyss. Next stop, The Twilight Zone.
Now, plot that same graph for “The race of 100 yard dash winners (over time), the race of NFL wide receivers (since Hayes), the race of NFL defensive cornerbacks, the race(s) of MLB infielders, the race(s) of NBA players, the races of Olympic swimmers-gymnasts-field event winners-archers-ice hockey teams-downhill skiers.
They are eliminating all such standardized tests so you won’t have to look at discomforting data in the future.
Calculus can easily be done with an Excel spreadsheet. Like a sucker I sat through those classes with one problem covering 3 walls!
“We’re sinking faster and faster into the dystopian abyss. Next stop, The Twilight Zone.”
Perhaps, if the long term effects for the vaccinated of ADE are what some postulate, we are beyond the “Twilight Zone” and entering “The Walking Dead”.
[Search domain imdb.com] https://www.imdb.com › title › tt0094027
Stand and Deliver: Directed by Ramón Menéndez. With Edward James Olmos, Estelle Harris, Mark Phelan, Virginia Paris.
The story of Jaime Escalante, a high school teacher who successfully inspired his dropout-prone students to learn calculus in LA.
Authorities thought that they cheated
Escalante demanded a re-test under controlled supervision
They all passed with top scores again.
“No Child Left Behind” was a terrible program. Among other things, it destroyed the trades programs in the schools. NCLB was another idiotic idea by that idiot George W. Bush. It was not a Clinton thing.
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