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Sunday at the Movies (Math Miseducation)

This video illustrates one of the fundamental flaws in the way math is being taught in Ontario. Although the video refers to two American textbooks, the main texts used in Ontario (Math Makes Sense and Nelson Math) suffer from the same flaws. This should not come as a surprise, since the Ontario curriculum mandates the same flawed approach. For example, the grade 4 curriculum (p. 67) requires that students “divide two-digit whole numbers by one-digit whole numbers, using a variety of tools (eg., concrete materials, drawings) and student-generated algorithms”.   LINK IF VIDEO WON’T PLAY