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Friday, June 4, 2010

Should students be taught algorithms?

I found this really interesting video that I thought I would share. I read that some schools wish to take algorithms out of school instruction and "teach" students how to do multiplication and division by "reasoning through." Hmm, is this real learning going on? And as my methods instructor, Cory Maley said, "without learning, there is no real teaching." I enjoyed learning algorithms, why do educators want to take them away?

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