I agree. The only time that the applied concepts method worked for me was in college when I took Calculus for Biologists and knew the biology well enough that it supplemented the learning of the calculus (which I had problems with in high school). But when I was younger, learning by concrete examples was not helpful.

Quoted: Frustrated math students may have a good excuse -- some of the teaching methods meant to make math more relevant may in fact be making it harder to understand, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

Scary. This is why I'm raising my kid in Washington.

Quoted: Kids who live in neighborhoods with heavy traffic pollution have lower IQs and score worse on other tests of intelligence and memory than children who breathe cleaner air, a new study shows.