Yes, math curriculum in our U.S. schools is 1,000 years old. Many teachers continue to teach math concepts with old style calculating procedures, solving equations, and doing geometric proofs. Nothing wrong with that but......why? That is the question today's teachers must address for their students --- mathematics in terms of conceptual thinking and abstraction. To learn more, please read Edward Frenkel's article and click on the link below. He is a mathematics professor at UC Berkley and the author of Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality.
How our 1,000-year-old math curriculum cheats America's kids. 4.29.2014 Edward Finkel. eSchoolNews
http://www.eschoolnews.com/2014/04/29/1000-math-curriculum-529/2/?ast=130&astc=11198
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