(July 18, 2017 at 11:39 am)Cecelia Wrote:(July 18, 2017 at 4:46 am)pocaracas Wrote: Maths can also only be learned through practice... that's where homework comes in, if there isn't enough time to learn the techniques in class.
How many hours a week do kids practice maths VS hours practicing those cheerleading stunts?
As for the punishment... that thing of making kids do laps if they get something wrong... imagine if you got some maths exercise wrong and the teacher made you count to 1000! LOL!!
When you say European History, do you go way back to Celts and Vikings and Romans and Gauls and Goths, or is it mostly 18th century and onward (to keep up with the US?) What does that AP mean?
Yes, but I think there's such thing as too much math practice. I see kids with like 50 problems to do. That includes my own kids. Practice is good, but too much practice can make you hate math.
50 problems in how much time? one night?! yuck!!!
A week? 10 a day? totally doable!
(July 18, 2017 at 11:39 am)Cecelia Wrote: Cheerleading is fun! How much they practice those stunts each week varies. We typically practice a few hours each week--maybe a little more when we're practicing for a competition.
A few hours and it's fun! It's like when I found out that they have a table tennis table here at work.... Every day, after work, me and another guy are hitting that table.... and we stay there for over an hour. In a week, we end up doing more than 5 hours of "practice". But we do maths and programming for most of our work, so we deserve it!
(July 18, 2017 at 11:39 am)Cecelia Wrote: Can't imagine counting to 1000. But I doubt it would be any more helpful than the laps! It'd take at least 5 minutes, assuming no breaks.That's my point.... it's equally useless.
(July 18, 2017 at 11:39 am)Cecelia Wrote: AP Euro goes from around 1400 (starting around the Hapsburgs) to present. AP means Advance Placement. Which means it's worth more than normal classes. It's a little like Honors. It's basically a college level course for high school students. There's also an exam they have to take to get credit for the course. And it's actually fairly difficult--though I haven't had a student fail yet. Something I'm particularly proud of! (I have had students fail my other classes, though not too many).I see... 1400's onward...Going through all the cool architecture and music periods, missing the black plague by a few years... then war war war.
In Portugal, we end up learning a lot about the discoveries along the coast of Africa, Brazil, the Americas, and the maritime path to India that then brought cheap(er) spices and other stuff to European markets. Political intrigues in central Europe mean little in comparison (it seems... ) so we don't learn much about them... we just go straight to Napoleon and then WW1.
[disclaimer] This is what I remember, from some 20 years ago.... maybe they've changed the curricula a bit to be less Portugal-centric in their teaching of High-school level History... maybe...