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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have to agree with 17:12 and that it goes back to the elementary age teachers teaching math. Math concepts are a skill that needs to be taught by a math professional with the teacher as facilitator. It's like a foreign language, if the skills are taught correctly and early, it becomes a natural foundation for the kids to use in MS and HS math. The concepts and skills have to be drilled in for easy access later in life. As a teacher who did student teaching in 4th grade, I can tell you that we had no idea how to do the above. We just explained the ideas from the worksheets and kids either learned how to do the worksheets OR if they were "math brains" they actually absorbed the concept/skill to use later. [/quote] You had no idea how to do it? But it's not advanced math. I'm not a mathematician either but this is a simple fraction problem. Why do you need mathematicians to teach elementary school math???[/quote]
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