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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really think that so many parents find multiple strategies difficult speaks to exactly how low American math skills really are. 
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Back in the day I was a pretty strong math student who hung it up after BC calc.  But the essential difference was that as a student I was never expected to do something in more than one way or (far more importantly) to understand what I was doing, whether it was why a formula actually worked or what the real-world application of an integral might be.  It was as if the truth lay somewhere just over a hill that we were never made to climb.  And the people who could grasp that truth intuitively were the people who were really and truly good at this, not just the people who got As and 5s.  I saw and admired the difference.

Whether the current multi-strategy curriculum will produce more people who can see math in that way remains an open question.  It certainly helps _me_ understand why things are the way they are, but only in retrospect.  My DCs certainly don't grasp the big picture, and I'm not sure too many kids will reach that understanding on their own.[/quote]

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