alt.education

In article ,
toto wrote:
>On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:10:32 -0700, William Elliot
> wrote:

>>On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, toto wrote:
>>> wrote:

>>> >NCTM?

>>> National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

>>> http://standards.nctm.org/

>>Have they been accepted by EBBS, the Education Board of Brain Standards?

>Any information on how the brain works would be interesting to those
>of us who have autistic children and grandchildren who struggle with
>the real world.

>You asked what NCTM was, I answered. Have you read the standards?
>What is your take on them?



Some years ago, while I was in the emergency room
for quite some time, I read through the entire
book written by NCTM. I do not believe that they
understood anything about mathematics; I question
whether any of them understood concepts as distinct
from manipulations. Concepts make the rest easy,
and learning manipulations seems to make concepts
hard, at least in mathematics at any level. Yes,
I am including the PhD level and even research.
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Herman Rubin, Department of Statistics, Purdue University
hrubin@stat.purdue.edu Phone: (765)494-6054 FAX: (765)494-0558