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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem is experience math teachers ignore it when they get a math curriculum they know is awful. If you are a new teacher you are expected to follow the exact approach the district uses.

Many schools are using a discovery/ constructivist approach to math where the teacher intentionally never teaches anything and  there are no worked examples in a textbook explaining the steps. Instead the students are supposed to work together in groups to discover how to solve math problems while the teacher merely guides them.

So your issue isn't actually with the teacher, your issue is with the math department for the district. Ask what the adopted curriculum is. [/quote]

As a tutor, I see the effect of this discovery/constructivist approach on my students - terrible!  We’re treating kids like they all have to reinvent the wheel every time they work, and we give them teachers as leaders who don’t know themselves how the wheel was invented.

Add to it that this approach leaves students with virtually no written materials - neither to process on their own, nor to process in review - and that kids are given a very low volume of problems to work which are very simplistic and which they are not encouraged to write down anything as scratch work or notes for themselves.[/quote]

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