I was reminded of you today, making your classical education curriculum!
My husband is a highschool math teacher, and was pulling together some videos and materials for his class. Each one is now 3.25 hours long instead of 1 because of the "cohort" system they're using to reduce covid transmission. They reduced the number of courses kids could take at a time, so they would be exposed to fewer kids and teachers. Instead of a term doing 6 courses at once, they'll do 2 courses at a time in a few weeks, then rotate to the next set. We don't know yet how it will work, but it might actually be a much more effective way to do it, for two reasons:
1) he has to engage their interest all that time, which is impossible, so he will now teach part of the class outside, or simply take them for a walk and let them ask questions, or just walk. Whatever to get a break part way through.
2) he has to string together concepts again that they were forced to cut up. So he has connected the dots on a history of formal logic that leads into algebra and mathematical proof in the same 2 days of classes. I am a dunce, so I asked why he was teaching Aristotle and formal logic - what did deductive and inductive reasoning have to do with math? He looked at me with alarm and said "[Hearthspirit]... what are you saying??" Then I realised.. "Right...That's what Math IS." So now I'm immortalized in meme form with some guy getting his mind blown on the cover slide of that topic in his slides.
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math curriculum?
Date: 2020-09-13 09:44 pm (UTC)My husband is a highschool math teacher, and was pulling together some videos and materials for his class. Each one is now 3.25 hours long instead of 1 because of the "cohort" system they're using to reduce covid transmission. They reduced the number of courses kids could take at a time, so they would be exposed to fewer kids and teachers. Instead of a term doing 6 courses at once, they'll do 2 courses at a time in a few weeks, then rotate to the next set. We don't know yet how it will work, but it might actually be a much more effective way to do it, for two reasons:
1) he has to engage their interest all that time, which is impossible, so he will now teach part of the class outside, or simply take them for a walk and let them ask questions, or just walk. Whatever to get a break part way through.
2) he has to string together concepts again that they were forced to cut up. So he has connected the dots on a history of formal logic that leads into algebra and mathematical proof in the same 2 days of classes. I am a dunce, so I asked why he was teaching Aristotle and formal logic - what did deductive and inductive reasoning have to do with math? He looked at me with alarm and said "[Hearthspirit]... what are you saying??" Then I realised.. "Right...That's what Math IS." So now I'm immortalized in meme form with some guy getting his mind blown on the cover slide of that topic in his slides.