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Math Education in the News
The following recent articles discuss the relevance and importance of math education for our children:
- Gut Instinct's Surprising Role in Math by Natalie Angier (New York Times, September 15, 2008)
- Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell (Amazon Video). In this short video that introduces the book by the same name, author Malcom Gladwell mentions the important role of culture and history when it comes to attitudes toward work, and explains why students from Asian cultures tend to do better in the classroom when it comes to math.
- Does new TTSD math program add up? by Jennifer Clampet (The Times, December 11, 2008)
- Math skills suffer in US by Sara Rimer (New York Times, October 10, 2008)
- The misplaced math student - lost in eighth grade algebra (The 2008 Brown Center Report on American Education, September 2008) - PDF
- Math camp adds up to a fun summer by Patti Moon (Medill News Service, August 21, 2008)
- Can less equal more? by Liz Bowie (The Sun, January 2, 2007) - PDF
- High school regrets by Richard Morin (The Washington Post, August 24, 2006) - PDF
- Math will rock your world by Stephen Baker (BusinessWeek, January 23, 2006) - Podcast and PDF available as well
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