Tom Lehrer, a song satirist who gained a popular following in the 1950s and ’60s lampooning marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, has died at 97.
It’s also funny because that new math while unintuitive to adults is great at making math more intuitive. It teaches you to understand mathematical relationships and build number sense
It’s even funnier because Common Core is another attempt to make arithmetic more intuitive, and is treated much like New Math by the generation that learned New Math as simply “math”
“I can’t even do my kid’s math homework” well yeah, you weren’t at the lesson and we’re trying to deal with the fact that a lot of Americans suck at math.
Ironically, the adults singing New Math today are the ones who grew up with the new math that Lehrer was singing about back then
It’s also funny because that new math while unintuitive to adults is great at making math more intuitive. It teaches you to understand mathematical relationships and build number sense
It’s even funnier because Common Core is another attempt to make arithmetic more intuitive, and is treated much like New Math by the generation that learned New Math as simply “math”
“I can’t even do my kid’s math homework” well yeah, you weren’t at the lesson and we’re trying to deal with the fact that a lot of Americans suck at math.