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Re: Why?
Posted:
Oct 25, 2012 1:35 PM
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On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 2:12 AM, Robert Hansen <bob@rsccore.com> wrote:
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> On Oct 24, 2012, at 7:55 PM, Paul Tanner <upprho@gmail.com> wrote:
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> See the links I gave to all those past posts of mine.
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> I did see the links, that is why we are talking about pretending to teach
> children algebra. My question was, if the student can't see arithmetic, why
> do you think they can see algebra? It appears that you are trying to use a
> rote trick just to get the student through the topic, and all teachers
> probably face this situation with students that struggle.
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You've missed half the issue. The other half is this: A teacher can't be
successful at pretending to teach unless students also pretend to learn.
And this phenomenon is precisely the problem with standardized,
multiple-guess tests: They don't distinguish between students who learn and
students who simply pretend to learn.
--Louis A. Talman
Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences
Metropolitan State College of Denver
<http://rowdy.mscd.edu/%7Etalmanl>
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