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An Atomic-Powered Prosthesis That You Attach to Your Common Sense
Writing for Slate, Jordan Ellenberg gets something off his chest about mathematics education.
Ellenberg defends the much-mocked "number sentence," arguing that
when we call 2 + 3 = 5 a 'sentence' we engage in the radical act of insisting that mathematics has meaning. That shouldn't be a radical act. But, too often, we teach our students that 'doing mathematics' means 'manipulating clusters of digits according to rules presented to us by the teacher.'
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