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How math education can catch up to the 21st century

  • Written by Mary E. Pilgrim, Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education, Colorado State University
imageA student in Cape Coast solves a math problem.World Bank/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

In 1939, the fictional professor J. Abner Pediwell published a curious book called “The Saber-Tooth Curriculum.”

Through a series of satirical lectures, Pediwell (or the actual author, education professor Harold R. W. Benjamin) describes a Paleolithic curriculum...

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