There are some articles making the rounds today on reddit about math education.
Seattle allows great diversity in its math curricula. This is not without risk:
In Seattle, schools have a lot of autonomy in how they teach math. The district has adopted textbooks and provides guidelines and timelines for teachers to follow, but doesn’t require [...]
Steve Yegge’s article, “math for programmers,” has been making the rounds. His thesis is that mathematical breadth in pre-college education would be more valuable than the attempt to provide mathematical depth in few apparently arbitrary areas (like geometry). He argues that specific math skills taught in grade school (like long division) are not necessarily of tremendous use to the [...]
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