SEELEY LAKE – Most people agree that education needs to be relevant, rather than simply rote learning. Often that gets interpreted as instead of handing students a page filled with numbers to multiply, the teacher poses a word problem.
The word problem may go something like this: Jill Salesperson, who works at a theoretical outdoor sports store, must help a theoretical customer with X amount of money decide what theoretical items he can afford to purchase for a theoretical backpacking trip.
Seeley Lake Elementary (SLE) Superintendent Chris Stout wants to remove the theoretical from that equati...
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