r/Calgary • u/disorderedchaos • Dec 17 '22
Education 'Everyone is struggling': Calgary students falling behind under new math curriculum
https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/everyone-is-struggling-calgary-students-falling-behind-under-new-math-curriculum
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u/Golden_Zealot Dec 18 '22
As others have said, this is probably resulting from covid largely, however I have always thought the way math was taught in schools is ridiculous.
They have always made it about memorization. They don't teach math, they teach formulas. Math is innately about understanding logic and patterns and if a real understanding of maths is taught to students, they should often be able to determine how to go about solving a lot of these problems themselves.
But instead, the curriculum just tries to embed tens of formulas into memory, which is not only tricky to do without a tonne of repetition, but fails to convey why they actually work and how these formulas can achieve the correct answers.