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[zwol]

How would you improve primary school math classes, if they put you in charge of it?

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[queenpam.livejournal.com]

Stop re-teaching really, really basic addition and subtraction in second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth grade. They should get it by then.

[lutin.livejournal.com]

I'd ask mrissa and then do what she says.

[lutin.livejournal.com]

Or the person I chatted with on her journal on this same topic a few months ago.
I don't remember whether the person was mriss or one of her friends.

[zwol.livejournal.com]

I was kinda hoping to hear from her on this one :-)

[shweta-narayan.livejournal.com]

MOAR concrete source-domain foo, less ungrounded abstraction.

[solconeja.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of Susan, Death's granddaughter in Discworld, who said something along the lines of, "I never told them that algebra is too hard for them, and it hasn't occurred to them yet."