Learning Math Visually

[Squirt]

Thoughts?

[SM-Count]

I mean it's all well and good but the percentage of people it will help vs. the cost is not worth it. The problem with the current united states education system is that parents and students are too sensitive and not enough schools and teachers have the power to fail students. You can't fail students in many schools in the U.S.

They should just adopt the system used every where else in the world, make middle and high school just like college without the application part, you take an exam and your school gets decided by that grade alone. Then it's easy to see where you'd want to spend money on getting PhD teachers to teach high school students and where you'd want to spend money on software like this.

The current problem isn't language barriers, the current problem isn't changing the curriculum to help people understand it better, it's to make the students work harder and realize there are consequences for failure that isn't have your mommy and daddy complain to the principal what a failing grade is doing to their precious little snowflake's self-esteem.

****, gotta stop ranting in random threads. Yeah, UC Irvine is a semi-legit school and those studies' have large enough sample sizes, though I don't exactly know the methods that got them the "triple" and bar graphs, I'm willing to believe something like this works, an absurd amount of people are visual learners.

[KillAndChill]

Seems like it could work, but I didn't watch too much of it. I'd say the reason students have trouble learning is that the majority of teachers have no business teaching.

[Avalanche]

what the hell just happened.

Students who fail Math are either lazy, or have a terrible teacher. I hate Math, yet I'm in Calc2. I failed Calc1 because I had the worst teacher possible. Re-took it with a good teacher, got a B+.

[ltsune]

Will probably work in the lower grades. But then again...it would help it the kids learned, as SM already said, that learning is very important.

Even at my grade (a business school), some people are still not taking school too serious. And guess what? They are the ones who all the time complain that they could not learn it because of this or that. Agreed, having a good teacher is important! Which is why I believe there should be stricter rules for who can become a teacher as well, lol.

[Avalanche]

Some teachers just don't give a shit. Those are usually the teachers who have been on staff for 20 years and can't get fired no matter how many students they fail. They get paid either way.

[Toshiharu]

Agreed, having a good teacher is important

Me being an oral learner I need a teacher that would go through the lesson and explain everything for me to understand. Ones that throw a book and say learn isn't helping. I could do that on my own time, but takes me longer to understand it. The text isn't the same as someone explaining the text. A visual representation would seem silly to me the amount of time it would take to explain a problem wouldn't that be longer?

Though the numbers don't lie. If it works then it works. Keep both systems and have the students choose which way to learn. This probably works, because it forces them to give their attention to it. Not because of words. Everybody had ADD when it comes to listening apparently.

[BuDo]

I'm very much in support of having options.....I don't believe we should all be lumped into the same box/profile and tested on some national standard. Our inherent individuality should be taken into account. I know its hard to create programs tailored for a multitude of learning styles but we should have few a more options in the education system..

[NuclearSilo]

Well, I watched the manga Great Teacher Onizuka. The teachers didn't put their soul into teaching but they simply did it for money.