Miller, like every math teacher I talked to, says schools are pushing too many middle-school kids into algebra. “Many of the concepts in algebra are abstract,” Miller says, “and if children are not developmentally ready to deal with abstraction, you can turn them off to math forever. Even the best students who can pull off As in eighth-grade algebra by just memorizing eventually end up realizing they did not really learn it.”
via Why our kids hate math – USATODAY.com.
After hearing and reading some of my colleagues comments about rigour and the need to fail to get better I thought this article was interesting.
