Monday, March 11, 2013

You Can't Make This Stuff Up

Scientific American writer Davide Castelvecchi posts the following clip from a newspaper article about how much we Americans hate mathematics.    



What more can I say? I could offer my math tutoring services, but I mostly tutor high school or college calculus students, not 3rd graders studying basic fractions. I would hope we wouldn't need a full hour to go over this. Maybe instead of the library where I usually meet the students, we could meet at a pizza place. Hands - on manipulatives would probably help.     

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