Education News – Barry Garelick
“‘We’re not doing as much problem-solving of that type as we need to be. We can definitely learn lessons from Singapore, Japan and China. But we have to look beyond their textbooks to determine what these lessons are.” Even a faithful NCTM adherent would not fail to notice that in Singapore’s textbooks, problems require multi-step solutions that are considerably more complex than what we expect US students to solve at that grade level.”(more)