On the recent snow day, I had time to watch the TED talk by Conrad Wolfram: Teaching kids real math with computers . He recommends that we make math in school connect to math in real life. To do this he suggests focusing less on computation and more on critical thinking and problem solving in the real world. Wolfram says that because of technology, math has been liberated from computing.
http://www.ted.com/talks/conrad_wolfram_teaching_kids_real_math_with_computers.html
Could we really turn math education upside down? Could we make programming a part of math instruction? Are we ready to teach without teaching the basics first????
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