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by PuppyTailWags 1161 days ago
Inquiry: small class sizes doesn't work? Could you show me sources/papers/studies/etc? It's is unintuitive, so I'd like to be educated on the factors at play here.
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I could easily believe the constraint being the tiny number of k-12 teachers who themselves understand math well enough to teach it like this, no matter how small you'd like to make classes.
That seems likely. Small groups allow for lots of questions and deeper explanations, which plenty of teachers can't provide.