[Maths-Education] Ratio and Proportion

[Rosalie A. Dance]

At 12:21 PM 10/5/01 -0400, Geoff Roulet wrote:

>I agree entirely.  My approach to such questions is to take them as=20
>opportunities to investigate how mathematics has evolved as a human=20
>enterprise (language) and how it really is not all that precise.  Although=
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>I see this as a valuable message for teachers and pupils, it is not very=20
>well received.  I really can not blame them in this time of large-scale=20
>testing.  They want to know what the "right" answers are since on the test=
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>there is likely to be little opportunity for the pupils to give convincing=
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>arguments for their answers.

Yet another sad commentary on those tests.


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