How early to introduce the reformed methods of teaching math?
To build a tall building, one requires a strong foundation; and, to get the American students at a height that the reformists hope them to achieve, students need to start constructing the foundations of understanding at the earliest. This means that we have to start at the base with elementary students and elementary teachers if we want to meet the raised expectations for middle and high school mathematics. Also, it is a fact that Age increases at a constant rate but cognitive level tends to follow an uneven fast, then slow, trend. (Stokes, 1990, p. 313) Furthermore, we cannot predict the periods of cognitive growth. As such, if we dont provide our young students with the right kind of intervention and experience in their early years, we might deprive them of some very vital cognitive growth opportunities. As Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences (CBMS) recommendations (2001) summarize: It is during their elementary years that young children begin to lay down those habits of re
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