bloglist Post's: Mar 27, 2011

Class over, but ... For seven years I have seen my beautiful son hunched over Kumon math worksheets. She finds them a little pleasure and I rather want to see him chasing butterflies. They certainly are in school math performance helped him - he is top of his class, but I wonder if it worth the effort is in the greater scheme of things. He currently is the solution per day, about 100 polynomials. Man, he actually polynomials, and can quickly solve. But for what? His math skills are amazing, but when presented with a math story problem, it falls apart, helpless. No matter how many times I suggest he read the problem carefully, note down the givens, intermediate and final values, to name a form equations, their Kumon engine (brain) to activate, it just can not get past reading - for the problem carefully step. Who's fault? It is his fault that he lacks confidence with word problems? Not entirely. Our actions, as teachers, a belief that solving word problems and math and algebra as naturally means simple operation should think. Many parents and teachers (forced), ie the hundreds or thousands of math worksheets work, multiplication tables, long division seems reasonable to encourage child to drill ... But some stories to encourage hundreds of solving problems. Make one suspect that the relative ease and simple math worksheets investigate simple, atomic operations problems at the expense of more holistic story takes care of the teaching of mathematics.

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