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Poor teaching

There are many schools and the government has built more schools in these areas since the advent of democracy, but quality teaching and a proper structured learning process is lacking.

The most tragic anecdote of how serious the problem is comes from a World Bank study conducted in a province back in 2010.

The study asked 400 12-year-old students to work out the answer for 7 x 17.

To work it out, the pupils first drew 17 sticks and counted them seven times. Some 130 of the 400 got the right answer.

But when the same question was presented in word form in English, things spiralled downwards.

Researchers asked the students: "If there are seven rows of 17 chairs how many chairs are there?" None of the children answered correctly.

 

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randolph posted:

Poor teaching

There are many schools and the government has built more schools in these areas since the advent of democracy, but quality teaching and a proper structured learning process is lacking.

The most tragic anecdote of how serious the problem is comes from a World Bank study conducted in a province back in 2010.

The study asked 400 12-year-old students to work out the answer for 7 x 17.

To work it out, the pupils first drew 17 sticks and counted them seven times. Some 130 of the 400 got the right answer.

But when the same question was presented in word form in English, things spiralled downwards.

Researchers asked the students: "If there are seven rows of 17 chairs how many chairs are there?" None of the children answered correctly.

 

Now a days they use calculator,no time for sticks and chairs for solving simple math problems,in my school days we had no calculator we learned tables from 2 times up to 20 times.

Django
Django posted:

Now a days they use calculator,no time for sticks and chairs for solving simple math problems,in my school days we had no calculator we learned tables from 2 times up to 20 times.

Calculators dumb-down the students and diluted creativity in problem solving.  Calculators should be limited to certain uses only.

FM
baseman posted:
Django posted:

Now a days they use calculator,no time for sticks and chairs for solving simple math problems,in my school days we had no calculator we learned tables from 2 times up to 20 times.

Calculators dumb-down the students and diluted creativity in problem solving.  Calculators should be limited to certain uses only.

Django dont care what # the students put in the calculator, as long as it lights up and show a number, dat will be the answer.

Nehru

Calculators aren't always best, they should be used occasion. I used them while working with EFX but could always tell if the answer was incorrect because I would have already done some mental work onthe figures. People take whatever answer without doing a quick runover of the figures.

I gotta say, those mental tests and cane lash did make a difference.

cain

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