Response to Outline Unit Plan for Mathematics

My experience and exposure in the public school system has shown me that many students have been programed to fail to make the connection between mathematics and its relevancy to the real world. Many students always asked the question why should we learn this type of math, many students cannot make the connection.I have also found that when students in secondary school take complex math classes they tend to have problems with simple calculations, understanding, and using the order of operation process; also problems with basic math skills such adding, subtracting, division, and especially multiplication.Students must be taught to practice and re-enforce previous learned math processes without the use of computers, and calculators until they can master math processes mentally or with the use of pencil and paper.Students must understand what math is all about and why we depend on this language.