August 18, 2007

Math Education: An Inconvenient Truth

squareCircleZ said:

This is a thought-provoking video. Should we teach math via algorithms? Should we be concerned about whether students understand what they are doing, or whether they can just get the right answer? How does technology fit into this? Should 10 year-olds use calculators for multiplication?

Recommended by tinkertailor: "While the context is American, the lady in the video plugs the Singapore mathematics textbooks"

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