Saturday, July 4, 2009

Conceptual Understanding

http://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_09_07.html

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm not sure of Devlin's point - skills? or concepts? is a red herring - the textbooks should be replaced with one excellent series of textbooks that is in line with Singapore - this is not terribly difficult. Curriculum development in the US is fakery.

Anonymous said...

If this is the MAA's response to us math reform then they haven't got a clue - Devlin might as well be talking to himself. Maybe Warfield whispered something to him. Devlin has a book - Life by the Numbers - so what - he doesn't have anything to do with education. Rational math can go get plugged.

Anonymous said...

Standards and math reform are cheap merchandising with an expensive price tag. Math education, Amway style.