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Re: Traditional versus reform
Posted:
Feb 18, 1999 5:14 PM
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At 12:49 PM -0600 2/17/99, Wayne Bishop wrote:
>Dear Jerry,
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>I suspect we both are quite certain that Morris Kline would have expected
>certain arithmetic competencies or he'd have chosen a different title for the
>book.
There are good reform efforts, there are irrelevant but harmless reform
>efforts, and there are clearly damaging reform efforts.
Wayne-
Sure!
The problem you and I have in communicating is your tendency to lump all
reform efforts together and then attack the worst one as represenative of
all reform. There is bad reform out there and there is good reform too.
-Jerry
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Jerry Uhl juhl@ncsa.uiuc.edu
Professor of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Member, Mathematical Sciences Education Board of National Research Council
Calculus&Mathematica, DiffEq&Mathematica, Matrices,Geometry&Mathematica,
NetMath
http://www-cm.math.uiuc.edu and http://netmath.math.uiuc.edu
"Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence,
To bore thyself and bore the students?"
. . . Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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