National Math/Reading Scores tank...

[arthwollipot]

You clearly don't know what DEI is nor how it can be incorporated into a maths lesson.

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Sorry, I couldn't resist. But Norman gave you a perfect explanation of how DEI can be incorporated into a maths lesson.

 

[psionl0]

Norman gave you a perfect explanation of how DEI can be incorporated into a maths lesson.

No he didn't. He made up his own definition of DEI and assumed that maths classes don't do any of that.

 

[arthwollipot]

No he didn't. He made up his own definition of DEI and assumed that maths classes don't do any of that.

I didn't see any definitions. Where are you getting the idea that he made up his own definition?

 

[psionl0]

I didn't see any definitions. Where are you getting the idea that he made up his own definition?

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[arthwollipot]

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Nice! That post defines nothing.

 

[Norman Alexander]

You clearly don't know what DEI is nor how it can be incorporated into a maths lesson.

My two long-term friends who are 30-year experience science, maths and English teachers do know. Also, one teaches sight-challenged and blind kids. The other translates school texts into Braille documents. They probably know better than me, which is why I asked them. Seems they know better than you too.

STEM
DEI

 

[dudalb]

Anybody else think our Bush Pilot is full of you know what?
I find it sick he is actually rooting for schools to be shut down.
And I find his claime a 2 year old can read to be, frankly, unbeleivable.

 

[Norman Alexander]

Anybody else think our Bush Pilot is full of you know what?
I find it sick he is actually rooting for schools to be shut down.
And I find his claime a 2 year old can read to be, frankly, unbeleivable.

I suspect some grains of truth, but plenty of exaggeration too.

 

[Chris_Halkides]

lenient grading

The Economist (29 October to 4 November 2022) discussed the precipitous drop in scores on page 27: "Educators in some circles still shy away from talk of 'learning loss.' They prefer to say that children are suffering 'unfinished instruction' or 'interrupted learning;' they insist that children learned other types of lessons during the pandemic. Parents are not always pushing them. Only 9% think their child's learning will not be back on track within a year or two, according to a survey for Education Next, a journal. Two fifths think that they never fell behind. Lenient grading during remote learning may have given them false assurance."

 

[Samson]

This subject has a root cause.
In the 60's we did rote learning of times tables, but this has been abandoned in NZ at least. As far as I know.

 

[Samson]

Actually I still remember chanting
One ones are one.
One ones are one.
Two ones are two
One twos are two.

Etc

And so on.