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| Apr 26, 2013 at 17:41 | comment | added | Ronnie Brown | @Jon Although this question is closed, I'll add a reference to my article "What should be the output of mathematical education" pages.bangor.ac.uk/~mas010/icmi944.html written after invited participation at an ICMI conference in 1994 on "What is Research in Mathematics Education, and What Are Its Results?". The question of "output" does not seem to well investigated in the teaching of undergraduates! See also other articles on my Teaching and Popularisation page, the shortest of which is "Carpentry". | |
| Apr 20, 2013 at 18:45 | comment | added | Steve | @Scott: great link. | |
| Apr 20, 2013 at 10:39 | comment | added | Jon Bannon | @S.Carnahan: I knew someone would bring this up! Implicit in my answer is an earlier comment I deleted: Personally, I'm not as interested in educating the general populace as I am in educating undergraduate and graduate students. (This isn't something I'm proud of!) So I'm not interested in a renewal of the "new math". | |
| Apr 20, 2013 at 10:37 | comment | added | Jon Bannon | @Henry: To my chagrin, I only find mention of it in the paper to which I linked above as "grain size". Maybe that's how it is referred to in the literature. All I know is what I wrote above, and that was enough to make a difference for me. If anyone has a source, I'd love to have it, too. | |
| Apr 20, 2013 at 3:59 | comment | added | Henry Cohn | What would you suggest as a good starting place for learning about Bass's ideas on granularity? | |
| Apr 20, 2013 at 3:12 | comment | added | S. Carnahan♦ | Would you be interested in a resurgence of the somewhat reviled "new math"? This talk outlines the history a bit: lsc-net.terc.edu/do/conference_material/6857/show/… | |
| Apr 20, 2013 at 1:33 | history | answered | Jon Bannon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |