Group: alt.education
From: Rowley
Date: Saturday, March 15, 2008 7:42 AM
Subject: Re: Third-grade junk math book

Official Distributor of Singapore K-12 mathematics, science and English
books
http://www.singaporemath.com/

Martin

toto wrote:

> On 13 Mar 2008 13:24:39 -0400, hrubin@odds.stat.purdue.edu (Herman
> Rubin) wrote:
>
>
>>The only elhi level at which I know of reasonably
>>good books is the old Euclid type geometry books;
>>alas, only honors courses now even consider it,
>>and this can even be reduced by bad teachers.
>>There are improvements in the axioms and presentation
>>of geometry, but the most important part, and it
>>is mandatory in getting an understanding of mathematics,
>>is the structure of proofs.
>
>
> Have you looked at the Singapore Math texts? I am curious and if you
> have, I wonder what you think of them?
>
>