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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"
April 02, 2007
Latest Internet Surveillance System reborn in Singapore
Wired.COM said:
"In 2003, plans for [usa] Total Information Awareness, or TIA, sparked outrage among privacy advocates....Poindexter resigned...[TIA was terminated, to be reborn in] Singapore, a country that mixes elements of democratic governance with authoritarian rule..."
Recommended by Anonymous Coward: "Data mining and surveillance of internet works against privacy of the internet user and his free speech. It will send everyone back to the stone age of controlled "Speakers corners" where nobody speaks anything significant or controversial and nobody listens."
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