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Elementary School Teachers Poorly Prepared To Teach Math, Study Finds

[slim1h2o]

Please expand and let us know why you are so pleased.

Posted by starleo14672 at 10:14 AM : Jun 26, 2008

It makes her feel superior to know that the education system are churning out idiots. A club that clearly, she belongs with.

[thgdriver]

Elementary School Teachers Poorly Prepared To Teach Math, Study Finds

LOL! They certainly are very "prepared" to take my hard earned property tax dollars that I am raped for every year! I am nothing more then an ATM machine for my school district. Most retired folks today are being foreclosed on because of outrageous school taxes.

I think teachers should get a serious break on gasoline for their vehicles. This I think would bring back the quality teachers we had in the past.

[starleo146]

Posted by Nancy_Naive at 10:05 AM : Jun 26, 2008

C''mon Nancy are you really satisfied with the no child left behind, and our education system as it is. Please expand and let us know why you are so pleased.

[slim1h2o]

Posted by Nancy_Naive at 10:05 AM : Jun 26, 2008

I''ll tell you mine,,if you tell me yours.

It all starts in the first grade. The child has to be interested in what they need to learn. The teacher''s hands are tied when it comes to a disciplined class. I am not talking about negative reinforcement, even though some students need it. I am talking about the teacher''s ability to get the attention of the entire class room. Able to command the respect they deserve. But the parents these days are the same children that were taught they had to be respected before they respect another person. Forget about them being children and the teachers being adults. In my day, if you showed any kind of disrupted attitude in class, you were met with a sharp pain in the rear or the back of your hand. That is criminal to a lot of people, but we now know where this as landed us in today''s society. Kids walking around thinking they are numero uno, and they can do and say whatever they want without any repercussions. We need to bring back corporal punishment to the schools. Then I think the kids will sit there and learn and do better in school. I do agree with the money part, but that shouldn%u2019t be the number one reason. I think a full time teacher should have extensive tax breaks, like not paying any federal taxes at all, get low interest loans on houses and cars so they aren%u2019t having spent all their money on house and car payments.

[thgdriver]

Elementary School Teachers Poorly Prepared To Teach Math, Study Finds

LOL! They certainly are very "prepared" to take my hard earned property tax dollars that I am raped for every year! I am nothing more then an ATM machine for my school district. Most retired folks today are being foreclosed on because of outrageous school taxes.

[jn122736]

Re. Post by Partsgal1970 at 08:17 AM : Jun 26, 2008
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This is the ONLY post I have seen so far that touches on the real problem, the use of calculators to do math assignments.

Quote from article: %u201CMath relies heavily on cumulative knowledge, making the early years critical%u201D.

In my time, simple arithmetic was generally taught one step at a time, beginning with addition and subtraction, masking it easier to comprehend the more complicated division and multiplication.

This knowledge is also stored in the student%u2019s brain one step at a time, and prepares him/her to more easily understand the next step in mathematical functions, all the way up the ladder of learning.

With the advent of calculators and use of it by students, cumulative knowledge normally stored in the student%u2019s brain is now stored in their calculators.

This is the fault of BOTH parents and teachers/schools, whether intentional or not.

[slim1h2o]

Jamesm;

Usually, an over inflated ego is a sign of idiocy and coupled with a rigidness that can''t comprehend anything but their own agenda. Which in Nancys case right wing views, and screw the next guy.

Apparently she has a mistrust of men too. Probably spurned as a young lady. Now she is a lonely spinster.

[starleo146]

Sadly, the expression "forgot more than he/she will ever know" is coming to past in a major way...

The uneducated led by the Alzheimer''''s patients.

Posted by Nancy_Naive at 09:14 AM : Jun 26, 2008
+ re

If you are an example of higher education God help us all

[johnax88]

My wife recently graduated with a k-8 teaching certificate at the age of 62. She has home schooled four children for over 25 years.She believes that most of her education teachers had no idea how to teach their subject to college students and less idea of how to teach it to children.

I spend my time jousting with educators that require students to know more math than they need for the career they want.

Is it surprising that math teachers, who get paid to teach math, say we should know more math?

I ask all of you reading this to be part of a survey. Post on this list the last the you had to multiply a fraction - except in the kitchen.

I am over 65 and have never bumpted into a linear equation or quadratic equation since leaving graduate school. In fact I can not remember when I had to multiply a fraction - oh I do add them but I never seem to have to multiply two fractions to pay my taxes.

Well - being in education I would certainly like to know what people out there really use for math.

For me the problem is not the teachers it is the standards that are meaningless to children.

[slim1h2o]

All men are my teachers that I might learn from them. I have even learned from you. I have learned that you are waste of flesh.

Regards,

Posted by Nancy_Naive at 09:56 AM : Jun 26, 2008

You need to go back and re-learn how to read, your comprehension skills are sorely lacking.

[slim1h2o]

Posted by Nancy_Naive at 09:56 AM : Jun 26, 2008

I see your ego is starting to run away again, However do you get that fat head thru the front door Nancy?

[concorde5]

The problem is teacher pay. We don''t pay enough to get quality teachers. I would love to teach but I couldn''t take that big of a pay cut.

When I was in college the only people who went into education were the ones who flunked out of something else. Those who flunked out of the biology program or computer science or engineering all went into education. In other words those who were too dumb to do something else became teachers. That is a terrible way to get teachers. We push these idiots off on our children then wonder why they can''t learn. We must pay better in order to get better qualified people as teachers.

[slim1h2o]

''We don''t necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of people.''
-- Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC Instrutor .
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And that''s from our military leaders. Sheeezz

[concorde5]

I knew it was a matter of time before this issue was tied to race.

[faith_in_w]

Have you noticed the advances for minorities always are accompanied by declines in America?

[slim1h2o]

hummm you sound pretty defensive

Posted by libsluv2spit at 09:21 AM : Jun 26, 2008

I don''t think her over inflated ego would stand for that.

[slim1h2o]

If there is any "lack" of education on my part,it is due to your generations lack of teaching skills.
Maybe you should explain your statement then.

Cheers

[slim1h2o]

Another success story.

Posted by Nancy_Naive at 08:52 AM : Jun 26, 2008

Sarcasm will get you no where Nancy.