New York Times Opinion Pages hits again. On April 12 an opinion piece called, “Teachers: Will We ever learn?,” by Jal Mehta, that gut wrenchingly challenged the ability of teachers to challenge the cognitive development of their students. The worst is when the author states, “By these criteria, American education is a failed profession.” A failed profession? To think that I’m […]
Common Core
Problems with Words in Word Problems
Something about adding that pesky English language into math class makes everything that more confusing. It’s day four of solving systems of equations, and suddenly students who were previously fine with solving a system, cannot see that the addition of words doesn’t change the math – in fact it gives nice application to it! 2 […]
