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Homeschooling just seems like real work. Most parents say it is highly
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The US schools are weak in math - almost all of them
regardless of public, private, or homeschool. The national weakness in
math (and science - which is related) is a growing problem. Math and
science are required for technological research, and research (like it
or not) is required for national security.
The fact is that a majority of US
university technology-related graduate students are from other
countries - many with less than stable political systems. Our Congress and
federal agencies that deal with national security are well aware of the problem
- but fixing it is another challenge.
But what about homeschoolers? We outperform everyone in everything - right? Wrong. Homeschoolers are weak in math. In this issue, we discuss this weakness and how to address "The Math Problem".
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What is really important in education?
"Homeschoolers need to do
better in math. Our reading and language skills are excellent, even
though we could always use a little improvement. But our math skills
need real help. We only do slightly better than public schools here. We
need to ...make sure we take our
children through algebra II and geometry at a minimum." [Mike Farris,
"Aim high(er):," World Magazine, April 28, 2001, Vol. 16. ]
Besides
the personal implications of future employment in a technology world,
we need to consider the apologetic issues of a good math education. Many Christians cannot perform well in
scientific debates about the origins of the universe, evolution,
astronomy, etc because of their raw lack of basic knowledge about math and
science.
Remember - theologians of the past have been astute students
of both the Bible AND nature - what systematic theology calls special
and general revelation from God.
But the
problem we have as parents is that we too were raised in a school
system that was often inadequate to prepare us to teach our own
children. Even then, most of us who did take the advanced math and
science course have long since forgotten the skills we once had in the
areas of math and science.
Are we
preparing our children to live in an age of technology? ...defend the
faith against scientific attacks? ...teach their children? Just as
language is the way to study the written word of God, or special
revelation, math is the language used to study nature, or general
revelation.
At this time of year when we look at what is most important to us as parents and as educators we encourage you when choosing a textbook, that
you lean toward a college level focus in the Algebra II w/ Trig and
Calculus courses - if not before. In fact, if you know where your child
plans to go to college, find out what math they will need, get a
syllabus, and use that text. (Our daughter would have to take one
course in Calculus in her degree field, so we taught her the same
calculus in the same book. She found the college calculus course just a
review.) Note that the high school textbooks tend to be written with
easier problems than the college level textbooks. All of the courses offered at AskDrCallahan are college-level courses, using real college textbooks and course guidelines. We guarantee your child's math scores on the ACT/SAT will not only increase, but they will also be better prepared for college after taking our math course. To view all of the available courses at AskDrCallahan, click here.
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How many math problems should I assign for homework?
At AskDrCallahan,
when our teacher's guide offers up suggested homework in our Algebra
classes we have picked out certain problems and listed those as the
ones to do for homework. Often we get questions from parents as to why
we didn't have students work every single problem in the book. The
question that quite readily comes to my mind there is "Am I teaching
students how to read or how to do math?" While the amount of problems
any student needs to learn a concept varies from person to person it
has been our experience that if a student can work 1-5 problems well
then I don't need them to work 30 just to prove it. Read the entire article on our blog.
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