Hi, James, > I'm in Australia. In our school system we use lowest common > denominator, class based teaching ... advancement in knowledge and skill > beyond the plan for the year is socially punished.
Wow. Sounds like Japan. > Bright kids learned > to hide their ability. However, even with that, I have met 5 to 9 year > old kids who could do the math that was to be learned at age 15. > > So I have no trouble with the idea of revealing the details of these > function derivations. > > At worst we'll create a generation who know math better than anyone else > ... and where's the problem with that? A little problem is that we would like to get "80%" of students to go beyond a threshold. May or may not be so high threshold, but reasonably high. Definitely we should try to make curriculum that fit almost everyone in a class except a few hopeless, not a few talented. -- Yoshiki _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
