Reasons to teach what we teach (2010)

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11 pointsluu4 comments

I would hope covid-adjacent 'discourse' provided ample proof of the need to teach people statistics in school.

Also why math is never an experiment apart from geometry? For example one could easily do the coin toss and write down the actual 1s and 0s coming out of the tosses. The small difference between resulting numbers in class and yet their closeness to 1/2 should make this day a success for a teacher.

> For example one could easily do the coin toss and write down the actual 1s and 0s coming out of the tosses

This is a really common teaching activity for the topic.

It's not that maths is 'never an experiment', but that people make uninformed assumptions about what maths education involves.

I wish the author gave examples of thins they’d omit from the “overstuffed” curriculum.

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