Re: Forwarded article from the Los Angeles Times...

Jim Francis (jfrancis@EDCC.CTC.EDU)
Wed, 22 Jan 1997 18:26:00 -0700

>Dom Rosa writes:
>
> . . . the extent to which this curriculum has been demolished during the
>last > 30 years, and the deeply flawed "reforms" that are being promoted
>by many of
> the same people that destroyed the traditional curriculum.
>----------------
I agree with Sandy Wagner: please define "traditional curriculum", inform
us what you feel ought to be taught and emphasized (and WHY), and say what
reform efforts are "flawed" and destructive to math education?

I'm not interested in puting you on the defensive -- I want to learn, as I
don't have 30+ years of experience to draw on regarding "reform
movement(s)".
PROPOSE A SOLUTION to the problems (as you perceive them to be). Thanks -

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