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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I ran it by a second grade teacher. Her feeling is similar to mine: While the concept of understanding 'why' in mathematics, etc.  is an admirable one, [b]making it mandatory will be exhausting for most kids as even an adult can't maintain this deep level of thinking for 8 hours a day.[/b] And she feels we are seeing that now with the preliminary rollout.

I do believe that the teachers themselves could come up with the best ways to meet these standards without exhausting the children, and you see that in the responses from teachers here. They truly understand how kids' minds work because they are the ones in the trenches with them. But that's not what's happening.

And that's why education is best handled at the local level. [/quote]

Fortunately, most schools don't teach math for 8 hours a day.  I know at the school we add in things like recess, and art class, and reading instruction, and science experiments, and lunch, and still send them home after 7 hours.

Kids can learn to understand the why.  If they don't understand the why then they aren't going to be able to retain skills or apply them, and they'll need to learn each new thing from scratch rather than applying what they already know.  It's easier to invest in understanding in the early grades than to deal with an 8th grader taking algebra who doesn't truly understand elementary skills.[/quote]

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