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It was L. P. Benezet, superintendent of schools in Manchester, New Hampshire, who experimented with teaching no math in the first five grades in the early 1930s
by asimeqi 10y ago
It was L. P. Benezet, superintendent of schools in Manchester, New Hampshire, who experimented with teaching no math in the first five grades in the early 1930s. See for example https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201003/when-less-is-more-the-case-teaching-less-math-in-school https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201003/wh...
- abecedarius 10y agoThanks! There's also his own report: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/benezet/1.html http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/benezet/1.html