Algorithms simplify and expedite operational computations. Yet, the way in which teachers instruct and students learn these processes make it more like a guessing game of steps that lack meaning and conceptual understanding. Especially for elementary students learning how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide (and I guess vacuum salesmen from the 1950s).
Monthly Archive
for: ‘May, 2010’
NCTM vs State Standards: Neither shall win.
I am sitting out on my mother’s deck in beautiful North Carolina, enjoying the sunny weather, 70 degree temperature, and dive-bombing humming birds. Yes, I am being attached by humming birds! One just flew to within three feet of my head, stopped, buzzed for about five seconds and then quickly departed. The assault on my …
Recent Comments