Monday, March 03, 2014

What I am Reading Today 3/3/2014

How the Data From Three US Rating Agencies Control the World's Economy - TED talk.  Typical utopian solution that has no chance of succeeding.

5-Year-Olds Can Learn Calculus - The current sequence is merely an entrenched historical accident that strips much of the fun out of what she describes as the “playful universe” of mathematics, with its more than 60 top-level disciplines, and its manifestations in everything from weaving to building, nature, music and art. Worse, the standard curriculum starts with arithmetic, which Droujkova says is much harder for young children than playful activities based on supposedly more advanced fields of mathematics.


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