In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on
01/08/2008
at 11:05 AM, "Kelman, Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I was talking to a public school teacher in this area (Johnson County
>Kansas) at a Christmas party about the teaching of math and the "New
>Math". She said that the school systems here are actually pulling away
>from New Math, using addition and multiplication table memorization
>again, and requiring the use of pencils and brains instead of
>calculators. It's about time.
The public conception of "New Math" is tainted by the fact that the
program as implemented by the "educators" was markedly different from the
program as layed out by the Mathematicians and by the fact that teachers
were assigned who didn't understand the materials.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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