Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!gargoyle!ihnp4!homxb!whuts!mtune!codas!killer!elg From: elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green) Newsgroups: comp.edu Subject: Re: U.S. Mathematicians dying breed Message-ID: <2461@killer.UUCP> Date: 14 Dec 87 06:07:46 GMT References: <2424@killer.UUCP> Organization: Bayou Telecommunications Lines: 26 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 -- Eric Lee Green elg@usl.CSNET Snail Mail P.O. Box 92191 {cbosgd,ihnp4}!killer!elg Lafayette, LA 70509 "There's someone in my head, but it's not me...." -PF