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From: elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: U.S. Mathematicians dying breed
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Date: 14 Dec 87 06:07:46 GMT
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Here's a couple of other tidbits, dredged from education journals:

"Recently, I had the opportunity to take a long, careful look at the basal
texts in elementary school mathematics. The books, save for graphics and
phtos, could easily have been published a century ago. Mathematically and
psychologically barren, such books prepare children for a world that has long
ceased to be."  -- Thomas C. O'Brien, "Five Essays on Computers in Education" 
                   Phi Delta Kappan, Oct 1983, pp 110-112

"At some point we may be forced to reject the 'filling station' concept of
learning." -- Robert C. Snider, "Terminal Time in the Classroom", PDK OCT 1983

 "...researchers.. conclude that many mathematics programs focus too much on
the development of routine computation skills and too little on understanding
mathematical concepts." 
  "There is increasing evidence that precollege work in mathematics and
science fails to integrate low-level skills and high-level understanding, so
that much of the material that is studied is neither remembered nor
understood." 
      Thomas L. Good, "Increasing Teachers' Understanding
            of Mathematical Ideas", PDK June 1987, p778

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