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We have to reference Tom Lehrer and the New Math era of the 60s: "But in the new approach, as you know, the important thing is to understand what you're doing,
by salgernon 12y ago
We have to reference Tom Lehrer and the New Math era of the 60s:
"But in the new approach, as you know, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer."
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/t/tom+lehrer/new+math_20138395.html
I did new math in the 70s and it did prepare me for understanding unix file permissions. chmod 0755 foo.pl!
- jameshart 12y agoI love Tom Lehrer dearly, but I don't see how it's appropriate here. Do you think that trying to teach kids to understand what they are doing is wrong? Nowhere am I suggesting that I have the impression that the child writing down "When you add two even numbers you always get 7" would be considered a valid answer on this worksheet - clearly they're trying to get kids to comprehend parity. Or are you suggesting that the answer would be different if you were missing two thumbs?