If nine year olds played football at school the way they do math, it would consist entirely of drills zigzagging through cones, without even touching a ball, supervised by coaches who had never played in or perhaps even seen a match.
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Denigrating children's math teachers and math education with an athletics analogy! How quaint. How incisive. How helpful. How...
I notice one adjective you've omitted from your list is "inaccurate."
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I found your tweet to be unproductive and unkind. There is great work being done with young [math] learners/learning. There could be more; I hope for more. I left pointers to a couple of people working in/around elementary [math] education. Have a look:https://twitter.com/benjamindickman/status/1074464694012919814 …
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I'm sure you mean well, but I can't help noticing that even though we now have two more adjectives, neither of them is "inaccurate." And an accurate analogy can often be productive, because it suggests ways to improve. E.g. make school math closer to math as it's actually used.
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