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Re: IMPMath/ Math in general
Posted by Pragmatic on 5/09/08

    The evidence I've read says that 'discovered' concepts stay with you
    no longer than 'taught' concepts. IMP spends 70 minutes a day, 5
    days a week doing something that direct instruction does in 45x5
    minutes a week. Given enough time, ANY math program can be
    successful, but the goal of k-12 math is to compress 2000 years of
    discovery by geniuses to 12 years of learning.

    It sounds like this student is being forced to discover (or not)
    things that a traditional class would just teach him. It doesn't
    sound as though it's actually open-ended. There are specific goals
    of the lesson, but they're obfuscated.

    Pragmatic.

     
     

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