We HAVE TO reach and teach our kids where we are! now Quitchure Bitchin’ and get in there and teach them what they need. Thank you emergentmath.com! Well said!
It’s a lot easier to complain that students don’t know, say, their multiplication tables than to actually teach multiplication.
Setting aside the oft problematic mindset of a teacher complaining about what “these kids” don’t know for the time being, consider actually teaching to the gaps you feel are present.
Let’s be clear: not a single one of us have entered the school year 100% satisfied with where 100% of our students are at math-wise. There’s always something that was allegedly “covered” in previous years and for whatever reason was not retained by the students. A couple years ago I was at a relatively well-off suburban school where 99% of their students graduate and go on to college and even those teachers were complaining about what their students did and didn’t know.
Often under the guise of unspecific complaints about students “not knowing their basic math facts” or “numeracy”, teachers sometimes…
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