Just to change things up a bit on this blog, here’s a newspaper article about an inventive English teacher:
If you think reading is a bit boring, well, you may be right.
But for one Pennridge 10th-grade English class, a hands-on architecture project has made reading exciting.
English teacher JoAnn Rubin uses a creative architecture project that teaches her students to use the precision of the English language and architecture as well as the freedom of artistic expression to help all types of students succeed in her English course.
“Not everyone is good at reading,” Rubin said about the project. “Some kids are really artistic.”
Okay, it actually wasn’t an article about English at all – here’s the real article about a geometry teacher. Why is it acceptable for newspaper reporters to say math is boring and for math teachers to tell their students that not all of them will be good at math? It’s this kind of thinking that provides a rationale for programs like Investigations that substitute writing and drawing and gluing for math.
Bravo Steve! A very clever way of reminding us all what power the major media have in shaping our assumptions about math. If we’re told to expect that math is going to be really hard and really boring, some of us will fulfill those expectations regardless of what goes on in math class.
Geometry boring? That is one of the most beautiful math subject! My math teacher told us that, and that was what I found out also.