Re: Abolish Fractions?

On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:38:02 -0800 (PST), amzoti <amzoti@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Thoughts?

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/mathscience/2008-01-23-fractions_N.htm

He's a kook.

Without a solid understanding of ordinary fractions, a student has
little chance of understanding algebraic fractions.

Thus, "down with fractions" has, as a corollary, "down with algebra".

Of course, many students would cheer for that, as would many parents.
Sadly, many elementary school teachers would also cheer. But that gets
to the real problem -- the teachers can't teach it. Why not? Because
they don't really understand it themselves.

quasi
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