[lbo-talk] The rape of education continues

[Alan Rudy]

The then-new math made immediate intuitive visual sense to me as a kid...
and I love Venn Diagrams as a heuristic, and I love them even more as I've
come to see a range of their flaws as they encourage me to look for the
problems in my conceptualizations.
A

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 6:13 PM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:


> I learned new math when I came to the U.S. in 1963, and I thought it was
> wonderful because it did away with the arbitrariness of math and helped you
> understand why things were so.
>
> But this was the sixties, before smart women math teachers were able to get
> any other jobs, so I benefitted hugely from having a lot of excellent math
> teachers who really understood what they were doing.
>
> Joanna
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Alan P. Rudy
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Central Michigan University
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