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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We were told that is 2.0.  Kids are supposed to get more understanding from figuring it out rather than being shown what to do..[/quote]

HI.  OP here.  THanks for all of the comments and commiserating with me.

LOL.  HA.  An excuse not to teach!   Show them the video!   Our friend as daughters who are in calculus at Whitman.  Apparently, the kids are told to watch a video covering the concepts before the lesson.   Next day, problems are given and the teacher walks around helping.   Of course, this is hearsay and I haven't seen it, but I believe it.  WHere the h*ll is the teaching.

I have been sitting with my daughter trying to do constructions all weekend.   When I asked her if the teacher had shown her, for example, how to construct a 60 degree angle (in the review packet), she either says she showed it only once or didn't show it at all.   However, she gave them online math resource, which we have been using.

My parents were teacher and my husbands parents were NYC school teachers.  They got out the chalk in those days, went to the board and DEMONSTRATED, LECTURED, and TAUGHT.

Husband is an MD (he can't figure out what she is doing) and I have a business degree and advanced degrees.

WHERE IS THE TEACHING??????    We are all expected to hire tutors???   No teaching?

ENd of rant.... :cry: [/quote]

As a former para, I have observed that MCPS teachers like to see students endeavoring to figure something out.  Direct instruction is out, contructed knowledge is in.  That's just the way that it is.  If a kid misses a day, he misses a lot, basically a review of the constructed knowlege.  [/quote]

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