Educator states reform math works!

Citing all those things we've read in articles - professors saying stop sending students who only compute, test scores are wonderful ... all in defense of reform math - made for all. What I would like to know, is this person true views on Singapore math and do they consider that reform math too?

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[mgreffin]

I've never in my life met a non-college level mathematics instructor who could honestly be called a mathematician. That doesn't mean they don't exist, but I'll give long odds that this woman never took a course in real analysis, topology, complex analysis... you know, the bedrock basis of advanced mathematics.

[becky50]

Dumb bitch. Math "reform" came about in the last 20yrs and has dumbed down our kids. My child switched schools and had to repeat Algebra 1. Our school is one year behind in math.

[DartmouthAlum96]

This woman is further evidence that most people who go into "education" are intellectually substandard.

[sleeper2345]

@BruceDeitrickPrice Right, addition is not "abstract." If only you realized how absurd the statement is. What does it mean to abstract? Don't you have to abstract information to call something a "dog"? Of course. However, most adults have no clue what it means to abstract an idea. Unfortunately, children are capable of learning much more than you realize or could imagine.

[BruceDeitrickPrice]

This woman is giving the Party Line. Written by the same people who devised New Math. Be suspicious, very suspicious!

Here's the correct way. Start with the basics. Make sure kids can add, subtract, multiply, and divide. Effortlessly, confidently. THEN you go to more abstract concepts. The lunacy of New Math and Reform Math is that they want to abuse elementary school kids with stuff that used to be taught in high school.

[DIFCS]

The United States is a Republic, a Democratic Republic, but definately not a democracy. Since this is  just one of those things that people always seem to spout just because they heard it somewhere else, you heard it here. We are a Republic.

[bathlarper]

Its not just nobel prize winning elite mathmaticians who use simple algorithms. every engineer and scientist in the world uses them every day of their working lives.

At the beginning of the video this woman says she is extremely knowledgeable because she has been a teacher for 34 MONTHS. use your basic math skills to work out that she's only been teaching for less than 3 years. Thats not even long enough to earn full membership of a teaching union!

[UCSDEngineerDoctor]

This women is a fraud, like solanadoc said!

[jorusfett]

I don't know where she got her data, but if she is looking at the TIMSS report, the best the US has ever done is 12th (in 2003 for 4th Graders). I hear the same line of reasoning that she put forth in my own school district. It's almost as if they are all reading from the same script. And I have to agree with some of the other comments...being a math educator doesn't make you a mathematician. :)

[fucku2be]

U.S. students also had lower scores than the OECD average scores for each of the four content area subscales. Twenty-four countries outperformed the United States on the space and shape subscale, 21 countries outperformed the United States on the change and relationships subscale, 26 countries outscored the United States on the quantity subscale, and 19 countries outscored the United States on the uncertainty subscale.

NCES 2005-03 published by US DOE