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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Yeah, I know. When I was growing up it was called "new math" and it was the launch of Sputnik by the Russians that got everyone panicked (thus the "new math"). The irony is that the engineers who got us to the moon were educated with the "old math" (no doubt the same math that the Russian engineers learned). My parents used to sigh and say, "new math"!! I imagine that one day your child will be telling this story and sighing and saying "Common Core math"! [/quote] That is not irony. "Old math" works for some people. But there are a whole lot of people it doesn't work for. It is possible to teach math better, and we should. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/magazine/why-do-americans-stink-at-math.html?_r=0[/quote]
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