New Math On Way Out. By LUCILLE PRINCE Staff Reporter. Is the New Math on its way out? Maybe. The number of critics is growing now with more and more people beginning to think of the New Math as one of the outlandish i'ads the 60's ...
... new math was denounced as a failure. There's no upbeat name for. the way math is taught these days. It could be called the new old math. Teachers hope it's better math. The dense jargon, baffling symbols and wordy explanations of new math ...
New Math Is Gaining Acceptance in Schools. By DAN HALL. Associated Press Writer Math " of teach- rage Mew andJ!haihruinaaS called both the necticut schools with little regret and considerable praise. While some critics have become more ...
... new math. beginnings of new math, that seems to be the somewhat ambiguous conclusion of many mathematics teachers across Connecticut. "Many people say the new math is dead," says J. Philip Smith, chairman of the mathematics department ...
Teachers debate vitality of new math. NEW HAVEN (AP) — The new math Is dead. Long live the new math. Twenty-five years after the beginnings of new math, that seems to be the somewhat ambiguous conclusion of many mathematics teachers ...
... new math, which was often shrouded in indecipherable language. By Daniel Q. Haney. BOSTON (AP) — Remember new math? That vogue of the 1960s that encouraged moppets to bewilder their elders with talk of compact numerals and the ...
'New math' theory proved wrong. By Daniel Q. Haney Associated Press Writer BOSTON — Remember new math? That vogue of the 1960s that encouraged moppets to bewilder their elders with talk of compact numerals and the commutative property ...
... new math" isn't like "what was taught in the old days." Same Answer. The surprising thing lor most parents of grade-schoolers is that their offspring arc still able to get 2 plus 2 to equal 4, "Nowadays," they complain, -"you may get ...
New math still stirs criticism. By DAN HALL Associated Press Writer "New Math," called both the rage and the ruination of Caching in the lOGOs, has been qu'Gt- ly-accepted by most Connecticut schools with little regret and considerable ...
... new math, fuzzy math — even "rain-forest math." Any of the ahovc imprecations will fetch sighs and spark eye rolls at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics — NCTM — a sohcr- sidcd outfit not accustomed to Intcr- nct-bornc name ...