Hi we’ve been fighting this nonsense up in Canada for over a decade. I’m a parent advocate who was involved in lobbying local school districts and provincial math reforms for over a decade. Lots of media interest generated on this issue but our Ed leaders continue to push on with their backward thinking reforms. Would be great to connect. My blog www.wisemathbc.blogspot.com or on Facebook WISE Math BC
I agree. For the most part math instruction is an insult to the students. Families can develop not only the common sense appreciation of math (after all, you need fractions to measure ingredients to bake chocolate chip cookies) but bring the elegance and creativity of math in analyzing solutions to important problems and growing a life style of systematic process to bring plans to reality.
Great interview. Had "sort of" heard about him so glad to get the full story.
He wants tutoring to be: "tiered so that the students who are really capable and want more challenge can get what they need, but also it would work for students who need more help in math."
Agree. Whether that happens often depends on whether the service is delivered inside of a school.
1. My nonprofit sent tutors inside high-poverty schools. One obstacle to his Tiered vision was/is red tape. Instead starting with the individual kid right in front of you, you start top down - the messy interplay school's curriculum, its macro data, its pedagogy, and the tension b/w the idealized version of all this and reality.
2. By contrast, when parents are the customers of a private math tutor (like with my current for-profit), a fairly common experience is the Tiered vision..."Hey kiddo, let's see where you're good and weak, what do you need" - make a plan, go from there.
An equitable way forward might be subsidizing more parents to find/choose their own math tutors if they want them.
Hi we’ve been fighting this nonsense up in Canada for over a decade. I’m a parent advocate who was involved in lobbying local school districts and provincial math reforms for over a decade. Lots of media interest generated on this issue but our Ed leaders continue to push on with their backward thinking reforms. Would be great to connect. My blog www.wisemathbc.blogspot.com or on Facebook WISE Math BC
I agree. For the most part math instruction is an insult to the students. Families can develop not only the common sense appreciation of math (after all, you need fractions to measure ingredients to bake chocolate chip cookies) but bring the elegance and creativity of math in analyzing solutions to important problems and growing a life style of systematic process to bring plans to reality.
Great interview. Had "sort of" heard about him so glad to get the full story.
He wants tutoring to be: "tiered so that the students who are really capable and want more challenge can get what they need, but also it would work for students who need more help in math."
Agree. Whether that happens often depends on whether the service is delivered inside of a school.
1. My nonprofit sent tutors inside high-poverty schools. One obstacle to his Tiered vision was/is red tape. Instead starting with the individual kid right in front of you, you start top down - the messy interplay school's curriculum, its macro data, its pedagogy, and the tension b/w the idealized version of all this and reality.
2. By contrast, when parents are the customers of a private math tutor (like with my current for-profit), a fairly common experience is the Tiered vision..."Hey kiddo, let's see where you're good and weak, what do you need" - make a plan, go from there.
An equitable way forward might be subsidizing more parents to find/choose their own math tutors if they want them.