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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]Blue_Adept
(6,417 posts)And I still can't get over it.
Math, like language, has rules. Schools teach the basics, foundations and rules so that as you grow older and use more complicated rules, you have the foundations.
The teacher is fully in the right here.
The uproar is hilarious because it reinforces the "my special snowflake" mentality of how teachers should teach. Another ignoring of the professionals and experts angle. Which just reinforces how far to the right Democrats have drifted or just how many conservatives are really posting here.
I've had these questions with my kids as they've gone through the system the last few years and at seventh and tenth grades now, they're doing far more complex work than I was at that age because they got the foundations, the terminology and the experience behind them.
The "old school" ways of math are what made me hate math. Not this.
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