No More Fuzzy Math?

I sometimes tune into NPR if I’m feeling a little liberal and want some talking on the way to or from work. I can’t listen to too many consecutive days of it or else I start feeling a little monochromatic – and have some strange feelings of voting for the Clinton family…

At any rate, I stumbled across this little piece on a change in the math curriculum for the state of Massachusetts. It was an interesting listen in that evidently the Bush administration commissioned a study to determine why the U.S. is falling so far behind in international math testing (that’s a whole other post or 500).

In listening to some of the interviews of faculty, I was rather impressed that the public education system actually built a syllabus around scientific research on how people learn. Let me tell you from first hand experience, that surely wasn’t the case when I was going through school in SC a few years back.

 Kudos to Massachusetts…

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