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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They actually rush through a bunch of topics, do not teach them effectively (using worksheets, group lessons, and pretty much anything other than teacher involvement). Because they haven't taught them enough, they have to "spiral" around to them again, year after year! So you expect most kids to just get it through osmosis? [/quote] I’m an immigrant and this is the main problem I find with math education here - rushing through topics, not enough reinforcement, not enough depth. A spiral approach to education- come back to the same material year after year. They will quickly go over a topic in class and then not touch it for the rest of the year. Of course, kids forget everything and next year they come back to the same concept. In Russian math you lay thorough foundation, layer by layer, you learn the concepts really well before progressing to the next level, there is a lot of repetition and one concept is derived from the previous one. It stays with you for the rest of your life and with my very average math education in an average Russian school I pass complex math exams at US university without any prep.[/quote]
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