When students bring a different approach to doing math, teachers often get defensive and see it as a challenge to the power structures in the classroom
More like they get frustrated because little Jimmy's "different approach" only works half the time, or they can't explain how they got the answer so they don'tactuallyunderstand what it is they were supposed to learn, or they can explain but it turns out their "different approach" is just a more complicated/ less useful version of what you are trying to teach them. I 100% guarantee there are no middle or high schoolers figuring completely new methods and equations by themselves.
I can only see stuff like this and common core as deliberate attempts to reduce children's ability and desire to learn. Common core makes it non intuitive and literally slows thinking, while this stuff creates an entire separate topic to get distracted worrying about.
I remember seeing a study a couple of years ago where they tested different methods of teaching math to to find one that reduced demographic differences.
They colcluded that some specific order of teaching concepts worked best, and recommended it.
You'd have to dive down and look at the data to see that the new pedagogic paradigm succeeded by making the material confusing, and equity had been achieved by reducing everyones scores but reducing the scores of the best students the most dramatically.
Deep down they must know that differences in outcomes are biological in nature, and that there is nothing they can do to erase them besides sabotage.
More like they get frustrated because little Jimmy's "different approach" only works half the time, or they can't explain how they got the answer so they don'tactuallyunderstand what it is they were supposed to learn, or they can explain but it turns out their "different approach" is just a more complicated/ less useful version of what you are trying to teach them. I 100% guarantee there are no middle or high schoolers figuring completely new methods and equations by themselves.
I can only see stuff like this and common core as deliberate attempts to reduce children's ability and desire to learn. Common core makes it non intuitive and literally slows thinking, while this stuff creates an entire separate topic to get distracted worrying about.
I remember seeing a study a couple of years ago where they tested different methods of teaching math to to find one that reduced demographic differences.
They colcluded that some specific order of teaching concepts worked best, and recommended it.
You'd have to dive down and look at the data to see that the new pedagogic paradigm succeeded by making the material confusing, and equity had been achieved by reducing everyones scores but reducing the scores of the best students the most dramatically.
Deep down they must know that differences in outcomes are biological in nature, and that there is nothing they can do to erase them besides sabotage.