RE: [MATHEDCC] Why Johnny can't do math
Vern Kays (vkays@RICHLAND.CC.IL.US)
Mon, 01 Nov 1999 08:10:19 -0600
There was an interesting article a maybe last year in on of the MAA
journals. It used the teaching music analogy. One of mathematics
educations problems is that for much of the time students are only doing
the scales. Practice, Practice but never really learn a great work or take
a solo to a new level of awareness. If someone only studied the scales
then little is accomplished. Even great musicians study their scales but
they do not do so to the exclusion of their "real" work. I feel too many
times, mathematics is the teaching and or learning of only the scales
without putting in the deeper understanding and ideas of the Mathematical
world both applied and otherwise.
Vern Kays
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