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Мы как всегда, впереди: в школах Сан Франциско новый эксперимент.
Цель благородная - чтобы американские дети полюбили математику.
Денег дали - 3 млн долларов
А как будем действовать, товарищи?
Долой правильные ответы, формулы и домашние задания!
Instead of teaching students to add fractions (cross multiply the numerators and denominators) and then solve 15 problems to get the right answer, they'll be asked to apply the concept to a real-life situation. Students would be encouraged to bounce ideas off each other about how to solve the problem.
Bergeson dream is to see 10-year-olds working out how to build a bridge in place of the current method of having a class of kids sitting in rows doing two-digit multiplication problems until their hand hurts.
"I think it's going to be a revolution in mathematics across the country," she said. "They can be a little engineer in the third grade."
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/26/BA121L7K1D.DTL#ixzz1ZDu4pGpo