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Why Teachers Fail the MTEL General Curriculum Math exam
by Jackie Smith
Feb 9, 2011
Why Teachers Fail the MTEL General Curriculum Math exam

It’s all about the notion of “body of knowledge.”

Between grades 6 through 12, students are immersed in progressively more difficult math from algebra to geometry to calculus to trigonometry.

In math, like music, knowledge is learned in building blocks over a period of time sequentially.

Conceivable, from grades 6 through 12, a good to excellent math student devotes no less than 600 hours of study learning math, not including test taking and test review.

When students graduate high school and enter college, their world changes to other core requirements and elective subjects of interest.

Under The REDI Foundation’s theory of “Math By Implication,” what is known relates to the scope of the teacher’s “body of knowledge” in math.

The average student may not have devoted 600 hours of study in grades 6 through 12 but only 400 hours.

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