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[quote=Anonymous][quote=pettifogger][quote=Anonymous]I didn't see any math creativity at my children's center.  Both kids felt like they learned more from their once per week AoPS math and language arts classes than they did in an entire week of AAP instruction.

My kids "needed" something, but AAP certainly wasn't it.  [/quote]

Yep, but I'm not even expecting 'creativity', I think many here are using this term to mean something other than procedural stuff. Creativity to me would mean something that you'd more likely to see in things like math contests, i.e clever ways of finding alternate solutions, outside the box thinking, etc. I'm not so concerned about lack of this creativity, as this is not something school should primarily be focusing on. I'm concerned that there is no focus in school on building up their reasoning and logic skills, as math in elementary school is an excellent time to do that. I'm seeing 100% procedures and algorithms and no real proof that students are taught to think about why things are true. Kids aren't even taught to ask questions, which is really, really, critical when learning something that feels hard. That's not really creativity we're talking about here, just a basic foundations of logic, reasoning, asking lots of questions, etc. that they should have a chance to practice in math class, to see where things come from, why they are true, and be able to reason their way to solving problems. When my kid says to me he learns more things from playing videogames than in class, I'm sad not only because videogames are addictive and I should be limiting the amount of time spent on them, but also because I know that he's right in some sense.. that from his point of view he feels that videogames give him more pleasure in terms of novel things to figure out, than class does.[/quote]

Completely agree with everything you say.[/quote]

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