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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's fine, because I'm happy to be my kid's teacher and teach her whatever the topic is in whatever way she can learn it.  But shouldn't she have some reference that we can refer to that tells her how the school thinks she's supposed to learn it?  Some people aren't auditory learners.  In fact, MOST people aren't auditory learners.  Which means that hearing it in school does very little good.  Hearing it in school, then going home and reading it, however, does a LOT of good.  But hearing it in school, then taking home a worksheet that provides no recap of how you're supposed to do it is totally useless.  Yes, I can just scrap the school method and teach my kid fractions in the way I think makes sense, but is that really the best we can do?  It's pathetic.[/quote]

Now I have cognitive dissonance. On the one hand, I have learned from DCUM that math in MCPS is repetitive and dumbed-down, and the kids just keep going over and over and over and over and over the same stuff. So if there's never (or hardly ever) anything actually new to learn, it doesn't matter whether you are an auditory or a visual or a stand-on-your-head learner. But on the other hand, I have now learned from you that a math textbook is necessary because there is not enough repetition in class.

(For what it's worth, the "teacher tells the students how to do it, and the students listen" method is not the only method teachers use in elementary school classrooms in MCPS.)

(Also for what it's worth, I grew up in the US, and my first math textbook was in eighth grade, for Algebra I. And that was decades before the Internet. If my parents ever helped me with math in elementary school, I don't remember it.)[/quote]

You can stroke your sarcastic cognitive dissonance all you want, but I never said there's nothing to learn in MCPS.  I did have textbooks growing up (in the U.S.), even before 8th grade.  And my parents certainly did help me with math.  I never liked or "got" division at first.  My parents had to help with that.  Math didn't click for me until Algebra.  And I'm definitely not a "special needs" case.  Ended up doing extremely well.  But I needed to have the opportunity to look at things on my own at home and understand them on my own terms. 
Why so invested in the idea that people shouldn't have textbooks?  Do you honestly not believe that some significant portion of the population would benefit?[/quote]

Also you (purposefully) misstated what I said.  I never said there isn't enough repetition in class.  There's plenty of repetition in class.  What I said was there isn't a textbook and the opportunity to review outside of class.[/quote]

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