Friday, May 23, 2014
Good grief! -- Sally Brown on New Math
I have been working on a long piece on the parallels between the New
Math of the Sixties and the Common Core math of today. As part of my
research, I came across an amusing quote from a Peanuts strip of the
time.
From Wikipedia:
In 1965, cartoonist Charles Schulz authored a series of Peanuts strips which detailed kindergartener Sally's frustrations with New Math. In the first strip, she is depicted puzzling over "sets, one to one matching, equivalent sets, non-equivalent sets, sets of one, sets of two, renaming two, subsets, joining sets, number sentences, placeholders." Eventually she bursts into tears and exclaims, "All I want to know is, how much is two and two?"What surprised me was how well Schulz captured the terminology. The part about one to one matching was particularly apt.
[Found it]
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