My rant on Openended Mathematics.

I have to admit, as I started reading the text I saw myself as a teacher much like those at Amber Hill, teaching to the materials and writing on the board and getting the students to copy the materials down. I always find that in the High school system with publics its fine and dandy to ask opened ended questions but at the end of the day, there was a standardized test which students needed to write and they had to know the material. I always wanted to have more of an open-ended approach but felt like there was never enough time, even though I am a strong believer in the idea that students will always remember better what they discover themselves. But how are we able to find the happy medium? I'm hoping that the more we dig into the text that this may become clearer. I think the idea of standardized testing has a grip on alot of teachers who want to branch out, but like i said earlier its so hard to do when outcomes need to be met!....