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Balancing the Emphasis in Mathematics Education
The speaker questions the idea in the common core that conceptual understanding, procedural skills, and applications should be pursued with equal intensity as no evidence was provided during the creation of the common core curriculum. They highlight that the National Math Panel mentioned these aspects are mutually reinforcing but did not specify teaching them with equal intensity. The speaker, a former school teacher, suggests that the emphasis on these aspects should not necessarily be balanced in math education.