Saturday, April 08, 2006
New Math...
Talking with some teacher friends tonight (friends who also happen to be teachers - not MY teachers personally, but they are my friends personally), the discussion veered towards the math system mantra being espoused in BC schools. It's like, "Math Ain't That Hard, So Just Suck It Up And Try Harder" or something to that effect. Anyways, studies have shown that students from other regions of the world (particularly Asia) are better equipped to handle the challenges of advanced math, because they master the basics of math (adding, subtraction, multiplication tables, etc) at an earlier stage of life. Our North American students are still counting on their fingers while the Asian kids are solving problems instantly in their heads.
This caused me to wonder aloud why we are not genetically enhancing our country's children to have more fingers at birth? Could that not be the simple answer to our continent's math woes? I mean, we can send a man to the moon, we can generate fifty times the amount of garbage as every other part of the world combined, we can make the Trailer Park Boys a cult hit... but we can't get a few more digits on a few more hands?
Wow. I'm appalled. I think it's time we all took a good long look in the mirror. Okay, that's too long [don't worry nobody will notice that zit except the hot guy/girl you like].
Back to the point at hand. I say, thumbs up for War Amps, but let's also all raise a finger for our nation's new math....
This caused me to wonder aloud why we are not genetically enhancing our country's children to have more fingers at birth? Could that not be the simple answer to our continent's math woes? I mean, we can send a man to the moon, we can generate fifty times the amount of garbage as every other part of the world combined, we can make the Trailer Park Boys a cult hit... but we can't get a few more digits on a few more hands?
Wow. I'm appalled. I think it's time we all took a good long look in the mirror. Okay, that's too long [don't worry nobody will notice that zit except the hot guy/girl you like].
Back to the point at hand. I say, thumbs up for War Amps, but let's also all raise a finger for our nation's new math....
# posted by Dairn @ 10:40 PM 
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nope, i am afraid you lost me at "friends who happen to be teachers..." -
after that, i giggled uncontrollably and wet myself.
again.
drat, that's twice today already!
Hee Hee Hee H... Aw, dagnabbit!!
after that, i giggled uncontrollably and wet myself.
again.
drat, that's twice today already!
Hee Hee Hee H... Aw, dagnabbit!!
i think it's time you quit God's call and went into a highly successful career in educational marketing --
Math
Ain't
That
Hard
frick... this alone will make you filthy rich
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Math
Ain't
That
Hard
frick... this alone will make you filthy rich
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