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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Unfortunately, this is why we study using the prospective double blinded studies. Some things that seem intuitive do not always prove to be true.
It is not true that MOST elementary kids in other countries are more advanced than their US counter parts. It is true that most in the developed world are more advanced at the elem. level.
There are many foreign students in our math grad programs.
There is no evidence that red shirted kids are more likely to be skilled mathematicians. Gifted kids are also not likely to be mathematicians, any where in the world. The point is that for any society, at the elementary level it is imperative to teach to all kids and get them as functional as possible so that the RN administering your meds when you are in the hospital can quickly spot an erroneous dose. The genius kids who want to pursue math can do so after sitting next to the red-shirted kid in 4th grade. Let's just have reasonable goals, good teachers, and good curricula.
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There is enough pilot data from math high school and college professors over the decade engaged in more and more remedial math education because their kids can't even add, subtract, multiply and divide positive and negative whole numbers, fractions and decimals and have weak foundations in algebra.  We don't need to spend more millions of dollars on another study to roll out yet another math curriculum every decade in a field for which, at the primary and secondary school levels, there have been no fundamental or paradigm shifting new knowledge.  Get back to basics and get the calculator out of the primary school math classroom (until teachers and students know how to use the device).  This is a fast and cheap initial solution to a large part of our problem with math education in this country.  Appropriately accelerated children in math (as in reading, writing, music, arts, languages, basketball, golf, chess and soccer) are not disadvantaged when it comes to mastery of their craft.  [/quote]

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