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eridani

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7. For students not mathematically gifted it was a failure

Reply to Demeter (Reply #2)

Mon Aug 18, 2014, 03:15 AM

Aug 2014

As the article points out, that was because non-nerd teachers had very little help learning to implement it. It certainly isn't impossible, as the Japanese have shown.

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Why Do Americans Stink at Math? [View all] eridani Aug 2014 OP

yep, contrary to what i was taught in school, there is usually pipoman Aug 2014 #1

The New Math Was NOT a Failure Demeter Aug 2014 #2

For students not mathematically gifted it was a failure eridani Aug 2014 #7

Because they think the teachers can make them learn it if only the teachers do the right things. Pholus Aug 2014 #3

I thought that the article emphasized that teachers need HELP to implement-- eridani Aug 2014 #8

I am a professor in the hard sciences... Pholus Aug 2014 #9

And do even worse at critical thinking rock Aug 2014 #4

Obviously if you read some of responses to threads on DU whistler162 Aug 2014 #10

here elleng Aug 2014 #5

this is a good friend of mine. trying to get it right in chicago. mopinko Aug 2014 #6