Re: Why do so many people hate or have trouble with math? Your input is needed!

On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Arturo Magidin wrote:

LearningNerd <LearningNerd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I think one way to make learning math more interesting -- and to make
learning anything more interesting -- would be to incorporate more
group projects,

I've never understood that. I never liked group projects when I was
kid. I never knew anyone who particularly ->liked<- group projects as
opposed to other types of school work, ->except<- those people who
knew they could coast with little or no work, leaning on the other
members of the group.

I like the mural we did. Though was a group project, each person did a
single thing by themselves.

What is it about "group work" that gets education types so excited,
anyway?

Get's them get off the hook, having to teach, to hold the attention of the
class for the whole class period. Instead of teaching, wouldn'd it give
them time for some individual tutoring, which would otherwise have to be
done after class when the teacher is otherwise too busy paper working?
In addition, doesn't that cut down on the amount of class planning paper
work that needs to be done?

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