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silver-grasp · 1 month ago

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It's true that it's not unusual, when reading fast, to *not* be looking at every letter in the word - I mean, that's how we miss typos, especially in our own work. And the brain does fill in gaps. But that's not how you should TEACH reading. Oh my god.

#this feels related to how math is apparently taught using all kinds of 'strategies' these days #and like. the 'strategies' are more or less exactly how I do arithmetic! BUT #those are habits I developed organically over time for doing math faster and more accurately in my head #I don't know where these new 'teaching strategies' came from but I am almost CERTAIN that someone did a study #trying to determine how kids who are 'good at math' do math to try to teach it to everyone else #but that's completely backwards. you have to teach the fundamentals of arithmetic and the meaning of place value etc FIRST #otherwise the strategies won't make any sense it's just a barrage of one million ways to do math problems you don't conceptually understand #which is how my mom's students end up doing subtraction problems by subtracting the smaller digit from the larger digit #regardless of which number it belongs to #and of course this produces completely nonsensical answers and she has to re-teach them subtraction from scratch

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