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Topic: Technology In Education
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Paul A. Tanner III

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Re: Technology In Education
Posted: Nov 29, 2007 10:24 AM
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- --- Michael Paul Goldenberg <mikegold@umich.edu> wrote:

> Anyone see any calls for shooting any messengers?
>
> Please note the flatly inaccurate equating of "drill and kill" with
> "computational practice. I have just received the entire second
> edition of INVESTIGATIONS. There's a great deal of computational
> practice in all the books. What there isn't is mindless drill and
> kill. That's because the practice in these books is built on
> principles similar to those described in John Van de Walle's methods
>
> texts in which students learn math facts in a logical way, build up
> new fact knowledge from what they already know through more logical
> extensions of simple ideas and basic properties of whole numbers, and
>
> do practice problems that also ask them to think about what way they
>
> might do the computations. I have to say that at first glance through
>
> them, I love these books. I wish there had been materials like this
> in use when I was a kid. I certainly learned my facts without them,
> but I missed a great deal that would readily have been apparent to me
>
> through thinking about the questions the exercises in these books
> raise.
>

In other words, the textbook does not have a healthy mixture of
exercises (the stuff that allows staying within what was actually
taught to get a correct answer) and problems (the stuff that requires
going beyond what was actually taught to get a correct answer)? It has
only problems? (Note that some denigrate the former as "drill and
kill".)

This is important, because it raises questions about the overall
structure of the teaching and learning process. One question would be,
"Is having only one or the other a good idea?"

Paul
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