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

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. "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. 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."--Back cover Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Introduction: Balance at the Core....Pages 1-33 Archimedes’ Lever....Pages 35-81 The Equation....Pages 83-117 The Sentence....Pages 119-159 Seeking a Middle Measure....Pages 161-207 Back Matter....Pages 209-227