Balancing the Common Core Curriculum in Middle School Education Composing Archimedes' Lever, the Equation, and the Sentence as an Interdisciplinary Unity /

• Main Author: Bunn, James H. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Education.; Curriculums (Courses of study).; Education > Curricula.; Assessment.; Early Childhood Education.; Curriculum Studies.; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation.
• Physical Description: XIII, 227 p. 10 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319461069

This book examines the idea of ‘good education’ which is thought to include a scientific and technical component, a mathematical component, a writing component, and an ethical and aesthetic component. Often taught separately in schools and in the Common Core Curriculum, Bunn proposes a new three-way intersection in these teachings: the basic sciences and mechanics of levering on a seesaw, the basic formulations of patterning an algebraic equation, and the basic rules for writing a sentence in English. In all three forms of inquiry, balance is the mainstay through which problems in US middle school education are brought together and analyzed.