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[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Re: Excerpts from alleged 5th grade math anti-textbook
I don't have to agree or disagree with any particular textbook; range, median, mode, and mean are part of my state's curriculum, and it is mandated that I teach them. Whether I agree with it or not. If it is not in the book I'm currently using, I do it anyway. It doesn't have to show up in a book to show up in the classroom. I don't remember what grade I learned "average" in. I know I already knew it when I ran into it in college; range, median, mode, and mean were all reviewed and used in my psychological measurement class. I also don't think what age we learn things at is the issue; I don't really think that there is any one "age" that everybody should learn a particular thing. Some are ready to learn sooner, some later. It just matters that they learn. Obsessing over what "age" or what "grade level" every isolated skill should be mastered is part of the current lock-step, one-size-fits-all obsession about how to structure curriculum. I'd rather go in a different direction, and focus on making sure that every individual, no matter where they happen to be with their learning at any age, has access to opportunities to learn whatever they are ready for, and to go as far as they are ready and able to do. Kelley "We must be the change we wish to see in the world." -Gandhi > So you do disagree with Dale Seymour Investigations that > that average should not be taught to 5th graders, and that > 6th graders shouldn't even be expected to know or be exposed > to the standard method? Do you think a college statistics textbook > should cover average, and its standard method, since research > shows "adults can't even grasp this concept?" > > Does everybody in this group believe that's its' harmful to teach average > or the standard method, or include it in state standards, since every > state standard specifies average at 4th grade, and every math textbook > ever written except the NCTM based books includes it at the 4th grade > level?
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