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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Herremann the Wise" data-source="post: 5634065" data-attributes="member: 11300">Actually it normally means the teacher is doing their job. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Teacher's deviate from the curriculum to suit the needs of their students (and occasionally themselves). I can teach the same mathematics curriculum to two students of the same age and can guarantee that they will have different experiences, even if inside the same classroom. If as a teacher, I rigidly follow the curriculum, my students in the main are going to miss out. Because the students bring so many different and varying experiences of mathematics to that self-same classroom, how they interact with the mathematics I present will be different and personal to them. Some students are more visual learners while others thrive on routine and regularity. Smart curricula assume this and even encourage it - that whole rule zero thing if you think about it.What some ivory-tower designer is thinking means two farts of a sparrow if I know that some kid in my class who hasn't had any breakfast, can barely perform mental arithmetic and who has no understanding of algebraic processes is going to struggle with the material that the curriculum says I should be teaching him. So while what the designers are thinking is relevant, important and interesting, it is not the be all and end all, and it is certainly not what defines mathematics or D&D for each individual, even though for some it will definitely play a part.Best RegardsHerremann the Wise</blockquote>

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