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Re: Discussion: Do US Math Teachers Suck?
Posted:
Mar 27, 2012 1:57 PM
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On 3/26/12, Robert Hansen <bob@rsccore.com> wrote:
> Some of this stuff looks too absurd to be "planned". For example, that high
> school here in Florida with 600+ students in AP and less than 15
> (essentially zero) students passing. And that is just one high school at the
> top of a list of 94 such high schools. When I see absurdity such as this I
> am thinking "mindless",
The mindlessness here lies in accepting this particular datum as indicative of
a problem that needs to be addressed an any level other than the local level.
About 250,000 students took the AB Calculus exam last year.
<http://www.macalester.edu/~bressoud/talks/2011talks.html>
So many hundreds---if not a few thousands---of schools were involved. That
94 schools performed very badly is no surprise, incompetence being always
among us.
- --Louis A. Talman
Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences
Metropolitan State College of Denver
<http://rowdy.mscd.edu/%7Etalmanl>
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