Malcolm X Clan life is not equal, my family in Venezuela doesn’t have the same opportunities I do in America. I just got lucky and escaped the dictatorship.
I really can’t function in a class that moves slower than my pace. Every student learns at a different rate, the kids who learn faster will get bored and frustrated with the rest of the class. In my science class it is not divided by intelligence so some days my friend and I have to sit there and do nothing because the slower kids need work catch up days. You have to understand that it’s not fair to other kids because some students feel like they’re being singled out. Divided classes benefit everyone!
I really can’t function on an internet that moves slower than my pace. Yeah, maybe every user surfs at a different rate, but the tubers who comment faster will get bored so hard and frustrated so intensely with the rest of the channel. On my favorite site it is not divided by "intelligence", so some days my friend and I have to sit there and do nothing because the slower derps need work catch up days obviously. They also make stylistic, grammar, and orthographic mistakes all da long. You really really HAVE to understand that it’s not fair to all the other kids because some students dare to feel they’re being singled out. Divided classes benefit me! So I say! I completely agree.
Are your classes mandatory? Mine were not when I was doing my Masters. Also, I've never regarded a class as a time to 'study.' I've used classes during my BSc solely to ask questions I've stumbled upon while studying in my free time. During my MSc I simply mailed the professor IF I had a question, and that's all. No need to waste my time, nor theirs ;)
Clout I’m still in high school and this science class was mandatory:/ the other kids probably would need extra help but they wouldn’t ask for it because on top of being slow they were also troubled makers.
Putting children of different cognitive abilities together should be illegal. The intelligent ones feel bored and it's wasting their time. The less intelligent ones don't have a clue of what's going on. There is only one teacher in a class. So only students who can learn at roughly similar rates should be together
Does this mean that we'll start lowering the basketball hoop for the team that has less wins, and raising the hoop for the team that has more wins or maybe adjusting the amount of players allowed on the court for each team? Are we going to start redesigning trumpets to accommodate each individual to make it easier for them to play?
But this is why the school system sucks anyways. You can't put fish and birds in the same class and expect to teach them all how to swim. If we started trying to accommodate the birds by using puddles instead of lakes, we'd be doing the fish a disservice. Every single person is different we can't all be expected to learn at the same pace and level as everybody else our age. Most teachers can't tell the difference between a bird, a fish, or a mule. So the system that the teacher works for decides whether they need to be teaching how to fly, swim, or walk. School is too linear, kids should be able to branch off and follow their passion without being bogged down by things that they struggle with. Because if you leave a kid in a class that they find unattainable they more than likely will become a disruption to the kids that can actually excel from the things that are being taught. if you keep the kids group together the people at both sides of the bell curve will always suffer, but if you let the people at the weak end of the bell curve follow another passion, it might help the students in the middle learn more from the people who are excelling.
Well, math is quite easy. It's literally about studying the facts. Art is a creative tool and the more you practice, the better you get. However, Art still leaves a window open for creativity which can still cause one's downfall when there is a lack thereof.
I like how you probably have no idea what the ted talk is about but instead insist on bringing down someone whose main intent is to better the lives of children in a faltering education system... idiot
I agree with you Donut; I think that the greatest lie that was ever told was that stories and play promote math. Eventually, after all the play and anecdotes we have to do traditional math and work in the abstract. If play and anecdotes do not transfer skills to the abstractions involved in math-then what is the point of it. That story and play line is misleading. Social Justice supporters wish to change education not to make it better for all, but to make it more accessible to the few. All they end up doing is preventing students from building the foundation that is required for higher learning in math and other subjects.
The Educational system needs to be blame for this not mathematics. Mathematics is a beautiful subject but teachers are the problem. Mathematics exist by necessity and should stop be viewed as a segregated subject but a shattered subject. Mathematics is not a social issuse SCHOOL MATHEMATICS COURSE STRUCTURE IS THE PROBLEM.
Why take responsibility when you can blame on math. Insanity how the f did we already get to math. Crazy part is when all this nonsense they're pushing fails & makes worse they'll be looking for someone else or thing to blame. Where go after math.
Using Michael Jordan as an example is a complete opposite of what she's asking for. She's asking to accommodate people who are less driven or less able, then she uses the example that Michael Jordan hadn't been accommodated, that he didn't make tryouts(he failed) And I'm sure there's many examples of doctors who failed medical school the first time or math teachers who struggled with math in school or musicians that can't read music. instead of trying to accommodate all the kids weaknesses they should teach kids to be able to identify their weaknesses and find ways to use their own strengths to accommodate those weaknesses
I guess I'm not really sure what this Ted talk was for... she says that all kids don't have access to math, but I thought that every school has math in their curriculum. So is she trying to say that Matt should be made more accessible ( as in easier)? For example putting bumpers up at the bowling alley? That might work for some people but as long as the bumpers can be put back down for the students that don't need them, because you don't want to hold students back just to make sure that the struggling kids can keep up
Efforts that lead to learning represent successful teaching, not accommodation. This is not a debatable point but follows from the definition of teaching.
Trying to sterilize people's strengths and weaknesses in order to create equality is going to make kids feel like they have no purpose because they're not "good" at anything. If you take away a nerd's ability to go to class and compete with the jocks, where they have the upper hand, then what does the nerd have left to live for? When I moved from a small town to a big city and was no longer competitive in sports at the same level as kids my age, math was the only thing that kept me going to school. My individual grade wasn't important to me, but my grade compared to the rest of the class is what was important, because I wanted to be better the people around me
So she said anybody can do math and then proceed to tell us how very few people are actually good at math due to...how you are born? And then the solution to this is by integration of mathematics (w/e integration of mathematics means for her) because not everyone learns at the same pace? How does this makes any sense for her?
It can't make sense because she starts with the nonsensical notion that anyone can do math. As a math tutor for several years I can 100% say that some people just can't do math
@ Justin Mason. It does not sound like a honors class. My best experience in high school was when I moved away from the rabble that composed the regular classes and moved instead to the honors classes. But that is just my experience coming from a broken home - albeit a high IQ one.
I don't think she even knows what she is arguing... Like, she wants everyone to be good at math, seemingly accidentally glazes over the fact that some people are just outliers, basically uses a defunct analogy by referencing MJ's demotion from Varsity to JV as 'not making his HS basketball team', then asserts that doing this is what robs us from great people like MJ, even though we had MJ....? This is REALLY bad.. lol. I'm for promoting learning for all people and expanding the methods through which we do it, but this person is all over the place.. xDD
if these kids can't do math, they problably can't do barely any scientific field, or they shouldn't! it's dangerous how people wants to destroy math, it scares.
Her story about the kid who developed his own mechanic shop (because she suggested it to him) pertained to dreaming or business or entrepreneurship and left out any information about him actually learning Math successfully or not.
Excellent ideas. The root problem in education is the mission statement: provide instruction, give exams and assign grades. If students fail to learn, it is OK because learning is not part of the mission statement. Any concerns, blame the student, the family, etc. A better system would focus on learning. If student fails test, find out why and provide instruction needed to make student successful.
I disagree with the emphasis on closing various types of gaps. If this means some groups or individuals accelerate away from others, so be it. It is my understanding that we benefit greatly from the culture and technology which largely comes from those with Westen values and who have IQs over a 120. So I'm not okay diverting academic resources away from those that are cognitively gifted just so you can close gaps. Also, schools will naturally exacerbate inequities because individuals that are fast learners (high g) will accelerate away from the low g students. Schools don't need to close all the gaps. Don't throw all your money at the smart kids, and don't throw all your money at the slow ones either. It is especially important that you don't throw all your money at the students that are learning English as a second language. It is extremely important that we slow down immigration because they tax our academic resources with ESL programs and so forth, when the money could instead be spent on those that have a heritage and history living here legally. I'd hate for music, robotics, or archery classes to be diminished or eliminated so as to allow funding for lots of special ed and ESL courses.
What did this talk have to do with social justice? She talked about integrating math into other subjects to make kids more interested in it. Simply a matter of how you develop your curriculum. Literally not a word about social justice. If you grow up and want a career that requires better math skills, you will go and take a math course. Just work for what you want. It is simple. Most kids have no clue what they want yet and school is basically just a prison they are doing their time in until they can go out on their own. No social justice required. 🤷♀️
How many people watched this? Sure, I don't agree with left-wing teaching techniques, but I fully agree that there are far too few people these days, especially Western countries, who can do maths properly.
The techniques are visual encoding, semantic encoding, practice, engagement that reflect experimental research of cognitive science not a political philosophy.
"No such thing as a math brain" Um starting in about 5th grade I never tested lower than 99 th percentile in any math standardized test including ACT and SAT. I didn't study for any standardized test. I hardly studied in college and got a near 4.0 at a good university with a math major. I often took classes with masters and phd students even though I was undergrad and solved extra credit math problems to undergrads that the phd students couldn't do. I never stuggled with math. And honestly never tried that hard. I would say I had a math brain
Yes, but please don't bog down and slow down the more intelligent kids with those stories, games and play. Make the slower kids take that in summer school. Maybe you could have the smarter kids teach the slower kids the play and game Math for extra credit.
You are correct. The solution is remove intelligent students from the classroom and let them learn in independent study. If they cannot learn on their own outside the classroom then they are not intelligent.
80s i had teachers who used story problems, the didnt just do 2 trains and so in. Some time it was your building a home its going to be this by this whats the area. So you know how much carpet to buy. Today it would reclaimed wood or something. He used games speed games, team games, also gave stuggling students help whenever he could worked at us student to help other learn the subject. Nothing marxist or weird lefty. Just work team work and figuring out how individuals learn and how to get some team work. This ladies idea if social justice may just be be everyone deserves a good education and we need to implement as many ways to do so. So common core and old math should be used to reach more then make it uniform. Ultimately its still up to kids and parents to stick with math. Or we do 10 hours of school 5 days a week for 10 months less time off.
Social justice implies fairness for all, and SJ math provides an opportunity for those who would normally not succeed at math by creating stories and play too teach their brand of math which is not transferable to real math which all students will eventually have to grapple with. I grew in the third world doing "oppressor " math as SJ warriors would probably describe it, and my culture never affected how I learned. They thought, and I learned, though not easily all the time, but I had to learn and I would go at what did not come easily until I learned it.
