Re: What was Old Math?

In article <56db3d71-a11e-443b-8221-f04ce9e32a28@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<bulegoge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
When I listened to this song on new math , I think this is how I was
taught. So what was old math?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a81YvrV7Vv8

Teaching computation as an algorithmic process,
without understanding of what it means.

In other words, memorizing the addition and
multiplication tables, knowing how to compute
sums and products, and to do the corresponding
things with fractions. Also, division,
including long division, all taught as algorithms.
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Herman Rubin, Department of Statistics, Purdue University
hrubin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: (765)494-6054 FAX: (765)494-0558
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