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Reply to "math curriculum 2.0 -- explaining math strategies"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] I don't understand why this is such a major shift in thinking for some of you. In any report, essay or presentation, you're asked to provide evidence to support your points. Why should math be any different? [/quote] I think the biggest problem is in the earliest grades, and among really overzealous teachers, who are requiring kids who may not be strong writers, to write grammatically correct sentence, elaborate ones, for questions that don't really require much in the way of evidence or support. As in "Write a paragraph explaining how you know that 2x6 is the same as 3x4" When it is perfectly mathmatically correct to show the same thing, using pictures.[/quote]
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