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[quote=Anonymous][quote]You make such sweeping generalizations.

What qualification would a teacher need to have to be acceptable to you to be a good math teacher?

Do think that private school teachers, who generally have a BA, but are not certified teachers, are better at teaching math under any curriculum?

Just how does acceleration help cure what you see as the real problem?

What is the objective here? To have kids understand math to underlie the study of science or engineering or to have them taking calculus in 10th grade?[/quote]

No.

Teacher must understand the subject well to teach it.  If a teacher does not understand deeply the concepts underlying prealgebra they will fail at teaching elementary school students math-- no matter how many degrees, letters, or teaching certificates trail the last name.

If a child has demonstrated mastery of basic prealgebraic concepts why force the child to sit in a classroom for years years learning addition and subtraction.  If the pubic school has classrooms with instruction in higher mathematics (perhaps MCPS doesn't have any such classes) why prevent the child from taking these options for math instruction.

The objective is to provide an education and instruction of sufficient challenge and stimulation for the child (not much differnet from reading ...picture books alone vs text and prose).  Sitting in a classroom of peers who are just learning to add and subtract single digits is not sufficient stimulation or challenge for a child with mastery of basic order of operations and prealgebraic concepts.  It may certainly be sufficient challenge for his or her peers just beginning to learn these concepts.

I think these are easy concepts to grasp by reeasonable folk.

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