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Re: [Phys-l] Old News That Stays News



Here's something you don't see every day: An informative, non-polemical,
non-hysterical news article about new math ± old math.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/07/18/renegade.math.parents.ap/index.html

Story Highlights
# Parents sometimes struggle with kids' concept-based math curricula
# Method teach the ideas behind mathematics, rather than rote procedures
# Parents don't understand the new methods; can't help with homework
# Rebel parents teach kids the old -fashioned math methods