American policymakers, therefore, face crucial questions.
Do we simply acquiesce to the status quo of ineffective progressive math education in our schools, with the result that our country fails to produce enough homegrown STEM talent to staff companies in our high-tech economy?
Or do we commit to a drastic overhaul of the way math is taught to our children and go back to doing what works?
When average people think about classical education, they tend to think about students reading the great works of Western civilization such as Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.
Those same people probably do not think about mathematics and its classical origins, yet it is the movement away from mathematics’ classical heritage that has helped cause the collapse of mathematical learning in America’s schools.
One of the most important foundational elements of mathematics is the standard algorithm, which is a step-by-step process that will solve a class of mathematical problems.
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The Retreat From Euclid And America’s Great Math Collapse
Lance Izumi
American policymakers, therefore, face crucial questions.
Do we simply acquiesce to the status quo of ineffective progressive math education in our schools, with the result that our country fails to produce enough homegrown STEM talent to staff companies in our high-tech economy?
Or do we commit to a drastic overhaul of the way math is taught to our children and go back to doing what works?
When average people think about classical education, they tend to think about students reading the great works of Western civilization such as Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.
Those same people probably do not think about mathematics and its classical origins, yet it is the movement away from mathematics’ classical heritage that has helped cause the collapse of mathematical learning in America’s schools.
One of the most important foundational elements of mathematics is the standard algorithm, which is a step-by-step process that will solve a class of mathematical problems.
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Nothing contained in this blog is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Pacific Research Institute or as an attempt to thwart or aid the passage of any legislation.