What IS Constructivist Math, or Fuzzy Math anyway?
Constructivist Math is students constructing their own understanding of math concepts. The teacher guides the students as they work together in groups, helping them to develop their own understanding of the concepts. Group work has a huge focus, as does the introduction of using calculators to work out equations, usually in first grade. At the elementary level, students are not taught division until very late 5th grade, and then the methods used are so confusing as to make the problems tedious to work out, at best. In high school, students are required to purchase and use a TI-84 graphing calculator, rather than learning to actually graph equations. They have become dependent on calculator use in middle school, as basic, core math concepts have been glossed over or skipped all together. Concepts which should come automatically to them are now essentially extra calculator strokes, because memorizing multiplication tables, fraction/decimal conversions, and long division have been classed
