Re: Is this math test too easy?

From: Richard Henry (rphenry_at_home.com)
Date: 11/22/04 

Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 17:59:56 -0800

"wind" <anon@anon.com> wrote in message
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> "Richard Henry" <rphenry@home.com> wrote in message
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> > "wind" <anon@anon.com> wrote in message
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> >> "Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> >> >k wallace writes:
> >> >
> >> >> ok,then,so in your opinion, what IS useful and relevant? Not math,
not
> >> >> literature,not history, ....what?
> >> >
> >> > Reading, arithmetic, problem solving, critical thinking, technology,
> >> > business, cooking, parenting, and things of this nature ... almost
none
> >> > of which are taught in school.
> >>
> >> Now that we're in the realm of opinions, here's mine. Put teaching and
> >> school on the internet. This could have been done in the past with
> > videos.
> >> If you want to be taught algebra, then get the top algebra
> >> teachers/researchers and pay them to produce some video/internet tapes.
> >> That means you don't have to pay for all the teachers around the
country.
> >> Similar things can be done for technology, etc. One other thing that
> > could
> >> be done is categorize the existing web sites and make new web sites for
> > the
> >> issues that people wish to learn. Paying teachers just to teach is not
> >> efficient. Research is more valuable and real-world applications is
more
> >> valuable than having hundreds of thousands of teachers wasting away
their
> >> time trying to teach kiddies in a broken system.
> >
> > Did you ever actually go to school?
> >
> > The best part of taking a class from an excellent teacher is the
real-time
> > interactive adjustment the teacher can make: matching the instruction to
> > the
>
> I thought we were talking about what is good for the student and not for
the
> teacher. The best thing a student can do is learn the subject. The
better
> part is to gain the independence so he can teach it to himself with some
> type of guidance, be it books or somebody more knowledgable. Not
everybody
> can get a good teacher, and don't expect them to pop up. Good teachers
are
> motivated to research, and they are demotivated when all their time is
spent
> teaching/grading papers/preparing lessons. Which is why I say put it
> online. It's not good for the teacher or the student the way the school
> system is set up.
>
> > level of the students, answering questions in class, and after-class
> > tutorials for students that need a little more. Put that on your web
> > site.
>
> You can match the instruction to one student but not the entire class,
which
> is where your theory degrades. People are going to proceed at different
> levels. It is asinine and backwards to expect that people learning
> something should all be on the same page.

I've noticed that some people never learn manners.

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