{"id":6236,"date":"2016-05-24T09:50:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T15:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=6236"},"modified":"2016-05-24T09:50:53","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T15:50:53","slug":"worth-sharing-teaching-math-to-people-who-think-they-hate-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2016\/05\/24\/worth-sharing-teaching-math-to-people-who-think-they-hate-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Worth Sharing: Teaching Math to People Who Think They Hate It"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><blockquote><p>A popular Cornell professor tries to help language-arts types learn how to &#8220;make math&#8221; instead of just studying it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Twelve years of compulsory education in mathematics leaves us with a populace that is proud to announce they cannot balance their checkbook, when they would never share that they were illiterate. What we are doing\u2014and the <em>way<\/em> we are doing it\u2014results in an enormous sector of the population that hates mathematics. The current system disenfranchises so many students.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/education\/archive\/2014\/10\/teaching-math-to-people-who-think-they-hate-it\/381125\/?utm_source=SFFB\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/lead_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/education\/archive\/2014\/10\/teaching-math-to-people-who-think-they-hate-it\/381125\/\">Teaching Math to People Who Think They Hate It<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-6236'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(6236);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(6236);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(6236);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A popular Cornell professor tries to help language-arts types learn how to &#8220;make math&#8221; instead of just studying it. Twelve years of compulsory education in mathematics leaves us with a populace that is proud to announce they cannot balance their &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2016\/05\/24\/worth-sharing-teaching-math-to-people-who-think-they-hate-it\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,414,24],"tags":[41,263,393],"class_list":["post-6236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational-technology","category-mathematics","category-teaching-learning","tag-education","tag-mathematics","tag-teaching-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-1CA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3875,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2014\/06\/04\/smoke-and-mirrors-slipping-math-scores-dont-equal-a-crisis-says-math-conference-panel\/","url_meta":{"origin":6236,"position":0},"title":"Smoke and Mirrors: Slipping math scores don\u2019t equal a crisis, says math conference panel","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"June 4, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Slipping math scores don\u2019t equal a crisis, says math conference panel. Sure. And if you believe this, I have some stuff I'd like to sell you...... Our students are dropping in math scores, compared to where they were 10 years ago, BUT we are reassured that it doesn't matter? 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