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In reply to the discussion: Why Would a Math Teacher Punish a Child for Saying 5 x 3 = 15? [View all]liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)later on. That is teaching what to think, not how to think. There are other ways of expressing the language of math. Who gets to say which way is the only way? We have hired of a bunch of efficiency experts to come evaluate our children like they would a factory and give us advice on how to get them to perform at maximum efficiency on standardized tests. It's really sad. I hate to see my children being taught this way. Children are wonderfully creative and natural problem solvers when allowed to be. We want to sit them down and tell them no,no you can't solve a problem that way, you must solve it this way. We are not allowing them to be natural problem solvers and I think our next generation of engineers and other problem solvers may suffer because of it.
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