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For the second time in a generation, education officials are rethinking the teaching of math in American schools. The changes are being driven by students’ lagging performance on international tests.
New report urges return to basics in teaching math. The nation’s math teachers, on the front lines of a 17-year curriculum war, are getting some new marching orders: Make sure students learn the basics.
Wall Street Journal via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Dartmouth Review excerpts two published examples of traditional mathematics problems and how Fuzzy Mathematics proposes to solve them.
By advocating mastery of the traditional algorithms, the reformers’ opponents have in fact established themselves as the defenders of conceptual thinking in the Math Wars.
Patrick Crabtree watched his fourth-grade son struggle for hours to solve two math problems last year.
It wasn’t that Connor Crabtree, now 11, didn’t know the answers, his father said. Connor is in the gifted program and has a head for numbers. But he didn’t know how to solve the problem the way he felt his teacher wanted him to.
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