Internet teens failing math
TheStar.com – Education – Internet teens failing math
Deanna Jarvis, 18, with help from father Sam, works on math problems the University of Guelph sent this summer to thousands of first-year students.
Multi-tasking lifestyles, abolition of Grade 13, leaves ‘i-generation’ ill-prepared for rigours of university
September 06, 2009
Louise Brown
Education Reporter
Check out the comments on this article.
“I saw this coming ten years ago…
I’ve been tutoring high school mathematics for over fifteen years privately and I had never seen more blank and confused faces until after the curriculum change. The new text books are garbage with more colour than necessary, enough to distract any ADD-susceptible teen, fewer problems to practice on and almost zero progression from easy to difficult problems. My business has sky rocketed. The text book companies are so entrenched in knowing what is “right” or “better” and being run by people who can’t do the problems in their own books doesn’t help anyone see what is really going on.”
So many Ontario teens are bombing university math now that there is no Grade 13, universities are scrambling to boost students’ skills before they arrive. Continue reading →