EDPJ 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Common Core State Standards Initiative, Number Sense
11 Dec 2019
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Fluency without fear: research evidence on the best ways to learn math facts (by: jo. Boaler: this past september the conservative education minister for england, a man with no education experience, insisted that all students in england memorize all their times tables up to 12 x 12 by the age of 9. This requirement has now been placed into the uk"s mathematics curriculum and will result, i predict, in rising levels of math anxiety and students turning away from mathematics in record numbers. The us is moving in the opposite direction, as the new common core state standards (ccss) de-emphasize the rote memorization of math facts. Unfortunately misinterpretations of the meaning of the word fluency" in the ccss are commonplace and publishers continue to emphasize rote memorization, encouraging the persistence of damaging classroom practices across the. It took him many years of feeling inadequate to come to the conclusion that: rapidity doesn"t have a precise relation to intelligence.
