Most of the time I spent in
math class was dedicated to two things. First was learning a new skill and
practice practice practice. Second was reading a word problem and deducing the
correct skill I needed to solve the problem. National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
refers to this as the problem-solving standard (NCTM, 2012). Becoming
proficient in determining how to solve a word problem is helpful because as an
adult most every time I need to use math it is presented as a word problem. Referring to word problems as life problems
may be more accurate.
Jon Scieszka wrote
a children’s book called Math Curse. In this book the main character is
bombarded with math questions throughout the day (Scieszka , 1995). The
questions are things such as how much time does it take to get ready in the
morning? I believe children need to understand that math is something that they
will use for the rest of their lives to figure out a number of problems.
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