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grntuscarora Donating Member (159 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-27-11 07:03 PM
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11. My kids use
a Singapore Math curriculum, and if these people think the rest of the world is killing us in mathematics ONLY because students in other parts of the world are "applying math to real-world problems", they're kidding themselves. Before they're tackling "real world problems" those kids are getting thoroughly (and I mean THOROUGHLY) drilled in the ordinary math problems this article seems to give short shrift to.
Admittedly, though, I'm not an education or math specialist....
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  - Well, let's see  kentauros   Sep-27-11 03:12 PM   #6 
  - But... but... they'll feel so good about themselves  Abq_Sarah   Sep-27-11 07:38 PM   #12 
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  - They seem pretty high level regarding what should be taught at each level  FarCenter   Sep-27-11 05:14 PM   #10 
  - My kids use  grntuscarora   Sep-27-11 07:03 PM   #11 
 

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