By: CL Crowther

CL Crowther — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 23:16:37 +0000

Shared this with my spouse who finally passed algebra after 3 failures (system though he internalized it) in high school when the gym teacher taught it. That teacher had to learn it as he taught it and somehow that approach worked. Be great to see this approach at colleges everywhere. In a country with such a poor understanding of math, you don’t have to be a math teacher to figure there’s something wrong with the teaching method. Students learning how to use statistics and probability to understand gerrymandering–that’s an investment in civics!

By: DuWayne Krause

DuWayne Krause — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 19:09:02 +0000

Halleluiah, someone actually gets it. Once upon a time I taught math at a SW Idaho alternative high school. I met with administrators at the local community college to recommend that they develop an applied math class, for each of their programs. They politely listened to me/but didn’t really listen. The school continued on their way with their high failure rate in their traditional math classes, which didn’t prepare their students for any profession. I developed my own workplace math classes, such as Math for Carpentry. Every year, I had kids come back and thank me for teaching them math that they used every day. Before that I taught math in SE Idaho. Many of the programs in the local community college required students to pass College Algebra 143. Their failure rate, in that class, was over 50%. The math in that class had absolutely nothing to do with most of their programs.

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By: CL Crowther

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