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I had no idea things had gotten nearly this bad. Does anyone here have any experience of this? It is evidently only recently the increase in this "teaching" philosophy has ceased expanding.
From NYT:http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/14/education/14math.html"
From NYT:http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/14/education/14math.html"
Note that the NYT prevents you from accessing articles more than 14 days old. I've saved a copy in case the debate continues past that point.At the same time, parental unease has prompted ever more families to pay for tutoring, even for young children. Shalimar Backman, who put pressure on officials here by starting a parents group called Where’s the Math?, remembers the moment she became concerned.
“When my oldest child, an A-plus stellar student, was in sixth grade, I realized he had no idea, no idea at all, how to do long division,” Ms. Backman said, “so I went to school and talked to the teacher, who said, ‘We don’t teach long division; it stifles their creativity.’” [emphasis added]
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