What is the Greatest Barrier to Learning Math?
What if the problem has nothing to do with the teaching and learning of math? What if the problem is unrelated to math?
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The Problem with the Silver Bullet in Education
Complicated problems often have multiple variables that behave in many different ways and at times, unpredictably. When we look for a silver bullet, we run the risk of investing significant sums of money in an unrealistic solution that will never deliver the expected returns. In this post I discuss a case in education where over $1 billion was spent on an silver bullet that did not work.
The Problem with the Silver Bullet
While the allure of a silver bullet is difficult to resist, silver bullets stand to do more damage than we think. In this post, I discuss the problem with the silver bullet and other associated problems that are caused by the mere talk of the silver bullet.