Meet the New Common Core

koshkas
Thu, 18 Jun 2015 16:52:19 +0000

That all boils down to “getting them interested”. A good teacher is generally able to do it - with deeper meaning, history, relation to other things they learn or usefulness of specific things in life. The problem is that sometimes (and more often than not) no one can tell them “when they will ever factor a polynomial”. The answer could be “never”. Deeper meaning, bigger picture can (and should!) be useful, especially when kids want some justification for hard or boring parts of studying, but the actual learning should go first and not be replaced by all the fluff around it.