{"id":1385,"date":"2006-11-14T09:41:48","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T16:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1385"},"modified":"2006-11-14T09:41:48","modified_gmt":"2006-11-14T16:41:48","slug":"washington-education-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2006\/11\/14\/washington-education-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Education Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And now for something a little different \ud83d\ude42  Yeah I&#8217;m growing tired of complaining about fault-tolerant haters too \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\nThis <a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.nytimes.com\/auth\/login?URI=www-nc.nytimes.com\/2006\/11\/14\/education\/14math.html&amp;REFUSE_COOKIE_ERROR=SHOW_ERROR\">article<\/a> in the New York Times highlights concerns about math education here in the great state of Washington.  Money quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn part, the math wars have grown out of a struggle between professional mathematicians, who say too many American students never master basic math skills, and math educators, who say children who construct their own problem-solving strategies retain their math skills better than those who just memorize the algorithm that produces the correct answer.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which of course is silly.  Mastery of basic math skills AND construction of their own problem-solving strategies is important for math education.  It&#8217;s not an OR sort of game.  Sadly I think &#8220;construction of their own problem-solving strategies&#8221; is a proxy for &#8220;water down the curriculum&#8221; while at the same time &#8220;mastery of basic math skills&#8221; is proxy for &#8220;only accepting answers done by the accepted algorithm.&#8221;  Both are anoying as heck.<br \/>\nIn related news, extremely long time readers of this blog are familiar with the WIT: the Washington Institute of Technology.  WIT is my dream university which I&#8217;m planning on founding once I find the necessary billions of dollars to get it started.  Well I&#8217;d better hurry up because the beginnings of a movement to build a polytechnic here in Washington: Seattle Times article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/giving-it-the-old-college-try\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And now for something a little different \ud83d\ude42 Yeah I&#8217;m growing tired of complaining about fault-tolerant haters too \ud83d\ude09 This article in the New York Times highlights concerns about math education here in the great state of Washington. Money quote: In part, the math wars have grown out of a struggle between professional mathematicians, who &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2006\/11\/14\/washington-education-roundup\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Washington Education Roundup&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[75,83,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seattle","category-teaching","category-wit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}