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applied mathematics earlier on, especially with the use of computers, sounds fantastic to me. of course everyone is going to argue about equity or lowering sta
by a-dub 5y ago
applied mathematics earlier on, especially with the use of computers, sounds fantastic to me.
of course everyone is going to argue about equity or lowering standards or whatever... but personally i think bringing more applied math to k-12 will be a boon, especially in the age of computers.
maybe by demonstrating how fun it can be to use the tools, more kids will be willing to suffer through the abject monotonity of rote memorization for doing hand calculations.
- gregjor 5y agoHas anyone ever seen computers work in public school classrooms? I used to work in the edu software segment and I never did. Probably 75% of computers in schools don’t work at all, or run Windows Me or Mac OS 8. Classroom teachers and schools usually don’t have staff or funds to maintain computers in classrooms, and teachers probably have less of a clue how to use them than a fourth grader.