Groups (Was Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Democracy and ConstitutionalRights)

John Kozak j_k_ at xylema.org
Wed Aug 25 11:03:39 PDT 2004


Jon Johanning writes:

> Interesting -- could it be because they missed the age at which

> mathematical instruction should start, somewhat like the case of

> foreign languages, which get harder to learn as one leaves childhood?

> Or would a different method from the one these anthropologists used get

> better results? (They were not math teachers after all; perhaps

> professional remedial math teachers would have been more suited to the

> task.)

Wish I knew; I'm sure I'll speak about it with my educational psychologist friend next time we meet. The results were quite conclusive though: none of the students could get to 1+1=2 reliably.

John



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