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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I agree completely with the bolded part. I tried very hard to find my son the addition table and times table in a small card but couldn't find them. It is all random flash card stuff. I don't recall anyone in my childhood had trouble memorizing the times table. I think seeing them in those sets must have made it much easier to learn. [b]Also I don't get the memorizing times table up to 12 business. In China, it is up to nine and the table will only show a triangle because half of the rectangle are the same so that students naturally understand for multiplication the order of the two numbers doesn't matter.[/b] [/quote]

Exactly! There are so many simple, visual ways that other countries use successfully to teach math understanding. I don't understand why American educators can't grasp this. I observed my child's class and I'm relieved that she already knows these concepts. The poor teacher was trying to describe in words the most convoluted process that confused her more than the students![/quote]

And in India (or so I learn from DCUM), everybody memorizes the times table up to 16, and that shows that math teaching in India is better than math teaching in the US. Basically, however any non-US country does it, it's better than the way the US does it, by definition.

(I don't know anybody in the US who had to memorize the times table up to 12.)[/quote]

India performs very poorly on international educational tests like the PISA. I think peoples idea of Indian education is severely warped by the sampling bias of the Indian nationals we meet in the US.[/quote]

Please feel free to tell people who are from India and live in the US and post on the MD Public Schools forum on DCUM that their math education was no good. I wonder how they will respond.[/quote]

If you tested American graduates of MIT and Cal Tech I'm sure you would think that US math education is the best in the world.  India has a billion+ people, the ones that are here are cream of the crop.  When you test all Indians they do very poorly; significantly worse than the US. [/quote]

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