LAMP Discipline,  Work Ethic and Commitment

LAMP offers ideas for instruction, ideas that make key skills and concepts clearer and hence easier to teach and mastery,  but LLAMP also requires students to sit down and study voluntary, due to incentives or due to firm direction from parents and/or schools.  Skill and confidence in applied mathematics come from drill and practice, and from examples that suggest or support skills and comprehension. LLAMP by including  methods for skill and concept development should eventually make an operational command of mathematics doable or feasible for students who are willing to sit down and study alone or with help, now or later. 

Cooperation: Instruction depends on student cooperation with teachers induced or forced.  There may be a need for a triage where students with normal skills and intelligence who refuse to cooperate are expelled or segregated until they alone or with the aid of their parents decide to attend class or study in a cooperative manner.  A student's right to an education ends where that student disrupts the education of others.  That being said, teachers should provide unlimited support, as much as possible, to students who are trying to learn and are cooperating in that. There in lies a hard bargain between student and schools or their teachers, a bargain that teachers with charisma and firmness, can motivate. This site author need not be one of them.

LAMP will fail where students and teachers do not make or have the time to follow its development of skills and concepts in small steps, one at a time, one after another, with verification and feedback to identify and correct errors.  We assume or hope that skills and concepts once verified will stay and be maintained long enough to provide an immediate base for further skill and concept development.  Drill and practice is required until the use of methods and calculations becomes automatic. In that, methods that require many steps or sub-methods be automatic first. 

LAMP (first draft, June 2008) a program for adult  and teen mathematics education

Mathematics education standards implied by calculus should be a factor, not the only one, yet not a forgotten nor hidden one in course design 

Area Intro
Introduction
Arithmetic
Geometry
Algebra
Logic
Calculus

Musings - More Ideas

More About LAMP
Evaluation
Maths Cultural Origins
First Nation Education
Modern Mathematics
Before LAMP
Problem Solving Skills Routine to Non
Instructional Concepts
Student Cooperation
Maths Extrinsic Origins
Science Education

For further musings or thoughts see site books.

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