tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post8620612799521348887..comments2024-03-13T21:26:03.011-07:00Comments on Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher: The Latest Stupid Way To Do Simple MathDarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15730642770935985796noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-52745882927611611032014-03-22T10:35:16.861-07:002014-03-22T10:35:16.861-07:00Not just cursive, but handwriting altogether is on...Not just cursive, but handwriting altogether is only given cursory attention. (no pun intended)I can barely read the handwriting of some of my high school students. The irony is that for dyslexic kids as well as ADHD kids, slowing down to concentrate on making the shape of the letter helps. Scottish Rite Hospital helps thousands of dyslexic kids using this approach.Ellen Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02845981491726296767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-83598940800936464882014-03-22T09:52:52.594-07:002014-03-22T09:52:52.594-07:0030,000 ft: You have no use for cursive when your s...30,000 ft: You have no use for cursive when your signature is an X.Jerry Doctornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-85154818915975233452014-03-22T09:49:48.255-07:002014-03-22T09:49:48.255-07:00My head is still hurting from reading the "st...My head is still hurting from reading the "study." First of all, the numbers don't add up. They had 8 students take all four quizzes. Since there are two questions per quiz, these students answered 64 questions. The 5 students that took 3 quizzes answered 30 questions. Six students took 2 quizzes - 24 questions. Five took one quiz so another 10 questions. That accounts for all 24 students and gives a total of 128 questions that were answered. But the results show a total of 130 questions.<br /><br />Next, you gave a maximum of eight "whole number division" problems to college students and they only got 60% right??? Oh... never mind. I forgot. They are education majors.<br /><br />Most important: Are they serious? Really? If you want the students to be able to multiply and divide using addition and subtraction, teach them to use logs. They'll understand that as well as they will this!Jerry Doctornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-31761618676011089222014-03-21T23:22:46.651-07:002014-03-21T23:22:46.651-07:00Ypu know ... I wanted to be super upset by this, a...Ypu know ... I wanted to be super upset by this, and I'm very disappointed that I'm not. essentially, the only way this is different is that is that it gives you a strategic way to make what otherwise might be a difficult first guess ... I wouldn't suggest teaching it that way, but perhaps as a backup plan if you didn't think you could make a good guess ... I never knew why the long division algorithm even worked until I started teaching synthetic. In general, though ... why should come first, shortcut comes second ... times tables up to 12, memorized.maxutilshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11294262473781967372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-47735079364279992862014-03-21T20:50:56.744-07:002014-03-21T20:50:56.744-07:00Off subject. Opinion about cursive no longer being...Off subject. Opinion about cursive no longer being taught. 30,000 ftnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-3104292620889119122014-03-21T20:18:04.383-07:002014-03-21T20:18:04.383-07:00Oh I can top that. My friends in the Foreign (OOPS...Oh I can top that. My friends in the Foreign (OOPS) World languages classes were told that the new paradigm for teaching Spanish, French, German and Latin is a "total immersion" classroom. First of all, whoever is mandating this stuff doesn't realize that NOBODY SPEAKS LATIN. Ok. Then there's the oddity that our ESL/ELL students are supported by bilingual programs from PreK to graduation because the official position is that total immersion doesn't work. So what makes them think that kids who speak English will learn Spanish faster using such methods? How come ESL/ELL students are not treated the same way?Ellen Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02845981491726296767noreply@blogger.com