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Bernardo de La Paz

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21. In 60s they went to New Math. Later they went back, then in 2000s, new new math. Now backlash again

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Reply #18)

Sun Nov 27, 2022, 08:54 AM

Nov 2022

The backlash is the same old nonsense.

You can't create the STEM students of universities with all the modern viewpoint on mathematics that they need to make their way in the world of reality, without a solid BROAD foundation of mathematics from Grade 1.

Further, business people and psychologists and early childhood educators all benefit from the CONCEPTS that come from a broad introduction to math from early grades. Mathematics is not as much about calculation as the masses think. Math is about processes and descriptions and reasoning and extrapolation and planning.

All toddlers are scientists exploring the world until they get the shit beaten out of them by the math-o-phobes who can't stand the competition.

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"New Math" [View all] brooklynite Nov 2022 OP

Thanks. Look forward to share this with my granddaughter . . . Journeyman Nov 2022 #1

New Math - Tom Lehrer NoRethugFriends Nov 2022 #2

Got an A in Calc and I don't think I understood a danged thing Kennah Nov 2022 #3

Better than me edhopper Nov 2022 #23

This is brilliant! nt Gore1FL Nov 2022 #4

I barely made it through Algebra I, so calculus is Greek to me. ShazzieB Nov 2022 #5

Integral calculus is just fancy addition. Differential calculus is just fancy subtraction. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2022 #19

Amazing! Abolishinist Nov 2022 #6

Good call! flying_wahini Nov 2022 #7

Whether it's this book, or something else, I don't see why more high schools and colleges... Silent3 Nov 2022 #8

I was in elementary school in the late seventies and my mother was furious about new math. betsuni Nov 2022 #9

Mothers were the problem, not the "new math". Mathematics is mathematics. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2022 #10

Don't know what that means. New Math was not math. betsuni Nov 2022 #12

New math was and is 100% math. Mothers had been taught limiting old math. Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2022 #13

LOL. betsuni Nov 2022 #15

Agreed! ProfessorGAC Nov 2022 #18

In 60s they went to New Math. Later they went back, then in 2000s, new new math. Now backlash again Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2022 #21

I find it bizarre people are not ashamed of being illiterate in math when they would be ashamed of b Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2022 #11

Not all people are the same. Not nonsense. betsuni Nov 2022 #14

The number of dyslectic people is much smaller than the socially-supported mathophobes Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2022 #17

Talking Barbie--"Math class is tough" Maeve Nov 2022 #20

Almost all dyslexic people read and write. A highly dyslexic guy was a fellow programmer Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2022 #22

Massimo does not, however, explain how this teaches calculus better than 'several' books of today muriel_volestrangler Nov 2022 #16