Fuzzy Math
Dedicated to the disarmament of all fuzzy math weapons, this site takes the establishment head-on. The world is a dangerous place and there’s no need to walk around in constant fear of some nuclear math weapon destroying your child’s education. Join the fight.
For the second time in a generation, education officials are rethinking the teaching of math in American schools. The changes are being driven by students’ lagging performance on international tests.
New report urges return to basics in teaching math. The nation’s math teachers, on the front lines of a 17-year curriculum war, are getting some new marching orders: Make sure students learn the basics.
Wall Street Journal via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Dartmouth Review excerpts two published examples of traditional mathematics problems and how Fuzzy Mathematics proposes to solve them.
By advocating mastery of the traditional algorithms, the reformers’ opponents have in fact established themselves as the defenders of conceptual thinking in the Math Wars.
