Re: Abolish Fractions?

On Jan 30, 11:36 pm, Gerry Myerson <ge...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
In article <gig2q3d6ll02jc6ge044n7paum35gjn...@xxxxxxx>,

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

Thoughts?

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

He's a kook.

When you've accomplished one-tenth of what he has,
maybe you can call him a kook. In the meantime,
I suggest you
1. don't believe everything you read in usatoday,
2. keep a civil finger on your keyboard, and
3. wait until you see a detailed exposition by the man himself.

--
Gerry Myerson (ge...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (i -> u for email)

The man may or may not be a kook, but he's dead wrong.

Ignorance of fractions literally dooms a student in middle-school and
high-school math. And not because "they have to learn fractions there
too".

It's because competent high schoolers can think in terms of ratio and
proportion, and those who cannot deal with fractions cannot.
.

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