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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do you think of the quality of mathematics teaching at TJ so far in your 2.5 years of experience there? Do you feel you are learning why things work, building intuition, and making connections between ideas, or do you feel that it is mostly procedural in that it focuses on steps and formulae without a deeper understanding (as it typically does at base high schools).[/quote]

Additional follow up: Do you feel that your math teachers inspire and encourage you to get a deeper understanding via encouraging exploration of ideas, forming arguments/proofs, and asking lots of questions? Or do you feel that the overall information flow is mostly one way with limited opportunity to have discussions about interesting topics?[/quote]

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It completely depends on which teacher you have but I think in general in math it’s more of a conceptual focus. Which is a big part of why the freshmen struggle when they come in in Math 4 or 5, because I think they’re more used to the linear math sequence of problem-solving for its own sake unless they’ve done AoPS or something.[/quote]

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