I found the TED talk on math education at
http://www.ted.com/talks/conrad_wolfram_teaching_kids_real_math_with_computers.html
very interesting.
In summary, this guy says that our math education is wrong. He defines
math broadly as the the process of (1) translating a problem to a
mathematical form; (2) deciding what result is required mathematically;
(3) doing the computation; and (4) interpreting the result. His point is
that math education focuses on doing the computation by hand whilst that
could be done very easily by computer. He reckons math education should
focus on the points 1,2 & 4 and let the computer do the computation.
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