Thursday, April 24, 2008

"Real World" Examples Don't Make Math Any Easier
Best Practices??? says who?

As shown in the New York Times HERE.

It looks like another one of the pseudo best practices just bit the dust.

The Ohio State University study that challenges the widespread use of this approach in classrooms:

(Looks like NMAP may be right; there are no best practices. The USA had best get busy with some real research not just spew forth politically correct jargon and expect improvement to happen.)

"Real World" Examples Don't Make Math Any Easier
Those who learn concepts through abstract cases more likely to retain knowledge, study says

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