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Re: Saxon ad
Posted:
Feb 26, 1995 4:02 AM
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On Sun, 26 Feb 1995, Tim Hendrix wrote:
> The written document expressing the Standards that NCTM endorses certainly
> does include some problems and examples of each standard.
I suggest that these problems and examples are poorly chosen.
And that this is extremely important. After all, ideas evaporate,
examples condence.
> At each grade
> level, after the statement of each standard, the writers attempt to
> "unpack" the idea behind that standard and demonstrate one example of how
> that standard can be employed in a classroom at that grade level.
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> It is absurd to think that the authors are going to give an example
> of every single type of problem application of any one standard.
It would be useful.
> That is left for mathematicians and mathematics educators
> to do on their own.
Do you think that an average teacher has time and competence to do it ?
> I agree, however, that there are topics not covered as
> thoroughly in the document as could have been covered.
Could of should ?
Are there topics that are covered adequately ?
> For example, the standard PMG used from K-4 of calculators and computers.
You mean that PMG chose a wrong example. Which is the right one ?
> Unfortunately, at the other levels, 5-8, and 9-12, the use of
> technology as a means of exposing the mathematics is not addressed
> very concretely. Yet, the document was 5 years ago, and now we
> know of many examples that were not fully developed then.
Was there the stone age 5 years ago ?
Do you mean that the document is obsolete ?
Andrei Toom
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