http://katie.kokopop.com/2007/05/27/jared-graduates/ Katie and her boys. All four - for posterity. Sun, 09 May 2010 15:37:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://katie.kokopop.com/2007/05/27/jared-graduates/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Dan Lipka Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:10:00 +0000 http://katie.kokopop.com/?p=75#comment-29 Minus and Plus are the same thing. Yet another issue with school. First the teach counting, than addition, than subtraction, and than multiplication, then division, than squares and square roots, etc., etc., but that is all wrong. Counting, addition, subtraction, multiplying, squares and square roots are all exactly the same. There are just combinations of each other . If you know one, you know them all (division is actually fundamentally different). Of course, if you teach them all together it will take longer to learn the basics, but then it will take much less time to learn the stuff after (however, you need to teach it by utilizing Algebra as a fundamental tool). You would need a three-year math class, but after you would have taught five years of the current curriculum. If learning numeracy is the goal, than schools need to think about the most efficient strategy to accomplish that. Minus and Plus are the same thing. Yet another issue with school. First the teach counting, than addition, than subtraction, and than multiplication, then division, than squares and square roots, etc., etc., but that is all wrong. Counting, addition, subtraction, multiplying, squares and square roots are all exactly the same. There are just combinations of each other . If you know one, you know them all (division is actually fundamentally different). Of course, if you teach them all together it will take longer to learn the basics, but then it will take much less time to learn the stuff after (however, you need to teach it by utilizing Algebra as a fundamental tool). You would need a three-year math class, but after you would have taught five years of the current curriculum. If learning numeracy is the goal, than schools need to think about the most efficient strategy to accomplish that.

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