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Idaho’s new education standards promise to make homework a new experience for everyone involved
Flash cards are gone from Christy Schwehr’s classroom at Amity Elementary School.
Those time-honored teaching devices used to drill math facts into young minds are replaced by "strategy cards."
Instead of having the answer to a math problem on the back, strategy cards have student-written questions that Schwehr can ask to help coax kids toward the right answer.
The difference between flash cards and strategy cards is a microcosm of the switch to a new rigorous curriculum that goes into classrooms throughout Idaho as schools get underway this fall.
By BILL ROBERTS — [email protected]
Full Story: http://www.idahostatesman.com/2013/08/25/2724599/coaching-parents-students-through.html
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