There’s an entire TikTok category of videos, Why is Common Core Math Bad. If you go to Instagram, there’s a math teacher who’ll tell you, If you’ve ever tried to read the Common Core’s Standards for Mathematical Practices, they’re almost impossible for math teachers to understand … and that means that students, parents, and administrators […]
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[B]y its very existence, [mathematics] poses a serious threat to their entire world view that there is no such thing as objective truth and what they have to say on any subject is just as valid as what anyone else says. Imagine a baseball field with a ball resting on the ground. Two teams come […]
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I have written many pieces over the years about the massive attempt to enroll more women in STEM fields, noting in one essay here that “Readers of the higher education press and literature may be forgiven for supposing that there is more research on why there are not more women in STEM fields than there […]
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