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Title: Misguided
Review: I picked up this book hoping it would demonstrate ways to teach math in a new way - a way different from the way I was taught when I was young. Something different from the old "memorize this algorithm, then drill and practice." This book doesn't quite get there. Granted, Romagnano's ways are a bit different and probably marginally better than the old ways of teaching math. But I think essentially, all he is doing is working word problems as a class and spoonfeeding students the solutions step-by-step. At least the author was kind of enough to give transcripts of portions of his class so you can see that his students are still not getting it. If you are looking for books that demonstrate ways to teach so students will think and learn about MATHEMATICS, and not just memorize procedures and algorithms, I suggest other books, like "The Teaching Gap," or "Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics"
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