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Re: IMPMath
Posted by smarkham01 on 5/14/08
Yes, after posting, I found that IMP is a TLA for the Interactive Math
Program. I'll accept that the student is competent, but I'm not
qualified to determine if the student "is a brilliant girl". The
students problem does seem to be similar to problems reported by
teachers, both secondary and higher education, that I have been able
to find. Specifically, the complaint has been that IMP students were
not able to recognize or solve common equations presented in accepted
formats. My search turned up few positive reports of IMP outcomes;
the majority of what I found was reports of school districts dropping
the porgram for ineffectiveness. If there are more recent (most of
what I found was between 5 and 10 years old) reports that contradict
this, I was not able to find them. Perhaps I've taken your comments too personally, but I'm not overly
"keen on a curriculum that hands the student a lot of responsibility".
I'm far more interested in a curriculum that requires students to
learn in a manner that permits them to move from District to District
and be able to pick up where they left off at. That type of
curriculum won't necessarily make the student responsible for
deconstructing problems and creating their own methods for solving the
independent sections they create. The student's experiences you encourage me to consider lack any
credibility unless they are compared to that same students work the
following year, a year without IMP. If the number of IMP students
required to enroll in remedial math classes at colleges is lower than
other methods, you'll have made your point. If more IMP trained
journeyman electricians pass the math portions of their masters tests
than those coming from other programs - tell us.
> IMP is the Interactive Math Program.
>
> The student in question is a brilliant girl whose testimony seems
> to me to have some importance, if only to show that her teacher is
> taking the wrong tack and some other method of presenting the
> curriculum would be more appropriate. Even if I granted that IMP
> was basically an excellent curriculum, I don't understand why those
> who are keen are not also prepared to respect a thoughtful,
> hardworking student's opinion. Not necessarily agree with her
> opinion, but respect her experience and engage with it. Yes, it's
> anecdotal, but probably none of us is young enough to have had the
> experience of learning math under this curriculum. Why wouldn't you
> give an ear to the various experiences that students have had? Why
> wouldn't you want to have a heads-up on the fact that some students
> may get off on the wrong track with this program, and spend hours
> banging their heads against a wall, if you don't help them out a
> little?
Posts on this thread, including this one
- IMPMath, 5/01/08, by Bill.
- Re: IMPMath, 5/03/08, by Elaine.
- Re: IMPMath, 5/05/08, by Pragmatic.
- Re: IMPMath, 5/08/08, by Elaine.
- Re: IMPMath, 5/08/08, by not popular here.
- Re: IMPMath, 5/08/08, by DSF/NJ.
- Re: IMPMath/ Math in general, 5/09/08, by Donna/WI.
- Re: IMPMath/ Math in general, 5/09/08, by Pragmatic.
- Re: IMPMath/ Math in general, 5/09/08, by DSF/NJ.
- Re: IMPMath/ Math in general, 5/10/08, by Donna/WI.
- Re: IMPMath, 5/10/08, by Elaine.
- Re: IMPMath, 5/10/08, by not popular here.
- Re: IMPMath, 5/10/08, by Elaine.
- Re: IMPMath, 5/10/08, by smarkham01.
- Re: IMPMath, 5/12/08, by Interactive Math Program.
- Re: IMPMath, 5/12/08, by DSF/NJ.
- Re: IMPMath, 5/13/08, by not popular here.
- Re: IMPMath, 5/14/08, by smarkham01.
- Re: IMPMath, 5/15/08, by not popular here.
- Re: IMPMath, 5/15/08, by smarkham01.
- Re: IMPMath, 5/15/08, by not popular here.
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