In Philly, we went that way back in the 80's. My stepson lost two years of math "education" when they dropped New Math.
Then, a couple of years later, the school he attended introduced "clock math". His mother and I were "WTH is CLOCK MATH?"... It took us a few days/weeks/whatever to notice "clock math" was nothing more than a base twelve system of math. Base twelve, yeah, that'll get you a job. The least they could have done was use base 8 or 16. Then the students would understand compter math. After a year or so, they dropped that one too. On Tue Jan 8 11:05 , 'Kelman, Tom' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >> --------------------------------------------- >> >> A point that should be obvious if anyone has ever confronted a >checkout >> clerk during a power failure. Around Greater Chicagoland, even many >> second graders are permitted to use calculators in class, to the >> detriment of arithmetic studies. :-( >> --------------------------------------- > >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. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
