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JackM1 -> RE: 50 years of math (12/8/2007 9:08:54 PM)
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its because they teach us math in a "spiral" method. so, every year you learn something new and then you "swing" back to that same topic to continue learning it a year or more later. it annoyed both me and my fellow students because we would learn the basics of say..alegra one year, and instead of continuing with that algebra for the next year or two so we could all firmly grasp the subject in one shot, they went on to GEOMETRY and trig (which, as many of you know..is just about the antithesis of algebra) so, the students who were shaky with the algebra, or JUST on the tip of getting it but not quite there, were thurst into a different math class that was completely different that what they were learning the year before. then, in another 2 years you went back to a higher level of algebra, BUT, that depended on your grade in geometry, which may or may not have been so good(depending on how much of an algebra person you are....theres this saying at my school "if you excell at algebra, dont expect to do so good in geomtry, and visa versa, because you suck at life) so, even though they kicked ass in algebra 1, some students were actually put into a lower algebra 2 math class because of the geometry grade they got the year before that....teh suk. i ALMOST understand why they do this..so we keep learning different types of math, because you need to know all of these to take the sat's and if you dont take them recently then you probably wont know them for the test, but at the same time theyre creating a generation of math RETARDS because by teaching to a test, they take away valuable time for students to fully grasp the subject thats being taught to them. lovely.
they also do this with science in my school district(i can remember having bio, chem and physics lite before actually getting into taking the REAL classes....i also remember not having learned a thing because it was SO lite, that they taught us almost nothing...)
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