Thank you Sandy Stenoff. I love this! No arithmetic until 6th grade and they all do just fine! As part of the plan, he asked the teachers of the earlier grades to devote some of the time that they would normally spend on arithmetic to the new third R--recitation. By recitation he meant, speaking the English language. He did not mean giving back, verbatim, the words of the teacher or the textbook. The children would be asked to talk about topics that interested them--experiences they had had, movies they had seen, or anything that would lead to genuine, lively communication and discussion. This, he thought, would improve their abilities to reason and communicate logically. He also asked the teachers to give their pupils some practice in measuring and counting things, to assure that they would have some practical experience with numbers.
Posted on: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 04:10:36 +0000
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