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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Math is not rocket science. If they would start actually teaching the subject, requiring students to perform on substantive tests throughout the school year rather than trying to guess what's on the standardized test/drill them on this, and support acceleration combined with proving mastery... then they would end up do well on the standardized tests. 
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I thought it was funny because, as I understand it, while math may not be rocket science, rocket science pretty much is math.

But, in any case, look at the quote from the post. What exactly does this mean? Are the math teachers not currently teaching math? Aren't the schools already requiring the students to take tests, other than standardized tests? (Note that I don't know what they do in high school, but in elementary school they sure are.) What specific actions would constitute "supporting acceleration combined with proving mastery"?  And how does the PP know that the students would then do well on the standardized tests? Maybe the standardized tests are lousy.

My point is that it's easy for a person to pronounce grandly that all the schools need to do is [a bunch of phrases that sound good]. It's a whole lot harder to turn [a bunch of phrases that sound good] into real actual stuff that real actual people can do every day in the classroom, system-wide.[/quote]

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