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favorite bubble on the KNOWING diagram:
Is there something to find out?
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Then there is this: The goal of education is understanding rather than performance.
Certainly true of the Irvington math department.
Unfortunately, while understanding is the stated goal of math teaching here in our middle school, rapid and accurate performance remains the goal of math testing.
Which would explain why I have several hundred dollars-worth of math workbooks lying around my office.
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"The goal of education is understanding rather than performance."
But understanding is not possible without a certain level of performance. They are always trying to unlink the two.
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