When helping my students with their math homework, there are two words that make me cringe. Turk Method. What is the Turk Method? It is a method of math that focuses more on mental math and different methods to solve problems. In theory, it is supposed to help the students who can not solve math problems in the classic algorithm way.
Personally I think the method is useless. Why? The classic algorithm is the method that parents have been taught. Turk math is a recent development in the math world, and because of this parents do not know how to use the Turk method to help their child. Along with this, Turk math uses "partial" math a lot to solve problems. In my experience with students it is difficult to keep track of the numbers and they end up getting the wrong answer. Along with that, there are so many different ways to solve the problems that the students use maybe three different ways to solve one problem on the first try.
Really. I feel like the following video will help to describe the many levels of confusion this method can cause.
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