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Originally Posted by bookie05
The funniest thing about this is that I doubt if their teacher would be able to solve that problem himself/herself without seeing it in a book first lol
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Probably right!
I could probably have done it faster back then than I could do it now... I liked that secret code type stuff. Though now I think it's useless crap. It seemed to me that the years 1-6 of math has so much non-math in it that it could be reduced down to two years, then have them do three years of algebra and a year of geometry to finish up elementry school. Then start them in Jr High with Trig, Precalc, and then start Calculus in grade 9. Separate out the other stuff into a critical thinking subject that teaches them how to think to solve stuff like that and how to integrate everything into real world thinking and problems.
And as a side note, that's just my opinion, and I'm not saying that it's the correct way things should be done.