The first problem I gave Jane came from Lewis Carroll and was a problem I had used many times with my Grade 8s and 9s. I knew that this was a good problem. The context was engaging, the answer was non-trivial, and it didn’t require any sophisticated mathematics to solve. And my students, when I had used it with them, had enjoyed arguing over the various answers they arrived at. If 6 cats can kill 6 rats in 6 minutes, how many will be needed to kill 100 rats in 50 minutes? (Lewis Carroll, 1880)
ELA / Math
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Argues for a cultural
Literacy from wexler
Are “legacy” practices able
To be accurately disentangled from ideological and/or material patterns (operant-ideologies)
“Cheney’s argument may sound reminiscent of E. D. Hirsch’s, but there’s an important difference. Hirsch’s goal was to provide disadvantaged students with access to references understood by the elite—whatever they might be—and knit the country together through a shared culture that could and should change over time. Cheney, on the other hand, was making a value judgment: American history and culture were superior.”
— The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America's Broken Education System--and How to Fix it by Natalie Wexler
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