I think I remember that school. The one where you scratched your sums on a shovel with a rock….and it was a long walk to school – had to wake up 3 hours before we went to bed…
I have taught HS Math in Denver and NYC. The geography problem is real. I can’t tell you how many times I have taken a time-out, drawn a map on the board and talked about where we are, physically, and a bit about where we came from, historically – though time, through space. I can’t sit here and give you numbers as to the effectiveness of this approach, but I can tell you the effectiveness of ignoring such ignorance: the pocket of ignorance only grows.
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