Battle Ground School "stops"

 One of my stops came from a description of a phenomenon: many adults in North America are seriously terrified of maths, and most people think that the ones who like maths are the male nerds, or the ones who have no social skills. This is a form of discrimination, not only sexist and racist but also, I think, "intellectual". The idea that not being able to do this difficult subject is normal and encouraged is also, I think, an implicit quest for laziness. In the long run, people will slowly lose the ability to study and explore "difficult" fields. All inaction is normal.

another stop is that there is a paragraph on page 394 that gave me new insight into the fact that the conservatism of maths education in North American public schools is due to a combination of people at multiple levels. My previous understanding was just that it was because of the lack of attention from the education system, but it was actually under the combined result of multiple levels of influence: administrators, parents, professional teachers, maths teachers, and so on. (p. 394) Then to influence or even change such conservative thinking one has to work on multiple levels individually.

The last stop comes from the article "A deeper conceptual understanding of mathematics is the key to success in international rankings" (p.400). This reminds me of our previous discussion in class about instructional teaching and relational teaching, from the point of view of the article it seems that conceptual understanding is also part of learning maths and we can think about introducing conceptual teaching in our teaching as well.