{"id":314,"date":"2006-06-20T05:46:55","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T05:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=314"},"modified":"2007-02-20T07:51:29","modified_gmt":"2007-02-20T07:51:29","slug":"math-is-where-kids-lag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learn-math\/math-is-where-kids-lag-314","title":{"rendered":"Math is where kids lag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An opinion piece by Ruth Peters in USA Today, \"Summer reading lists are OK, but math is where kids lag\" [no longer available, but cited in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/news\/math-in-the-media\/mmarc-08-2006-media\">Math in the Media<\/a>], bemoans the poor level of math skills in the US.<\/p>\n<p>She mentions that many students get a reading list for the summer holidays (how many of the books are read?) but rarely are they assigned mathematics tasks.<\/p>\n<p>She quotes studies that show students' math skills drop by \"2.6 grade months\" over the summer break. Not surprising, when the last thing on their minds is algebra and trigonometry.<\/p>\n<p>The final part of the article is disappointingly commercial (plugging various math tutorial companies and software products.)<\/p>\n<p>How about offering well-run \"discovery\" camps over summer? These would not be \"science\" or \"math\" camps (sounds too boring), but would actually give students interesting problems to solve - situations that require some physics, chemistry and math knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>But wait a minute - that's how math and science should be taught all the time...<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learn-math\/math-is-where-kids-lag-314#comments\" id=\"comms\">1 Comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An opinion piece by Ruth Peters in USA Today, \"Summer reading lists are OK, but math is where kids lag\" [no longer available, but cited in Math in the Media], bemoans the poor level of math skills in the US. She mentions that many students get a reading list for the summer holidays (how many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}