Re:California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th gra...
by eggy on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @07:24AM
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Thanks for the links; I'll have a look.
The Finnish idea of less hours, but more concentrated effort sounds like it could work. I have five children from medical school age to elementary school, and I have seen the hours of homework go up, but not the time to properly teach, or at least the lecture/lab model in university.
Passion to learn, curiosity, and finally, need drive successful learners.
Re:California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th gra...
by eggy on Thursday November 25, 2021 @09:09AM
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The first link jumps to mathplanet when I select English for the site. I tried searching, but couldn't find a similar article there.
The second link appears to be a curriculum by grade. I'll try again later, thanks!
https://www.webmatematik.dk/lektioner/7-9-klasse/algebra
https://matematik.gyldendal.dk/til_laeren/01-om-portalen/06-...
We’re not the best inspiration for how to run your school system though, we have had several huge reforms since the 1995, and the most recent major reform is failing miserably compared to what they are doing in other Scandinavian countries. Which is ironic because the reform was created to catch up, and then ended up failing more than what we had before.
Most it has to due with how our government isn’t willing to commit the necessary resources to run it. We actually have major, major, issues with that in all parts of our public sector right now. So bad with nurses that we’re cancelling operations and seeing delays on our emergency service phone lines on a national scale which are outside of what is legally required.
I think Finland has the best recipe for a modern school system for the west. They did the opposite of us, where instead of making children go to school for longer hours (thus needing more resources), they make children go to school less hours, but focus the resources better.