The Havok Wrought by Modern Math – THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX

By Dr. Charles Ormsby on March 4, 2004   Andover, Education, Lawrence, Local, Methuen, North Andover  

    By: Dr. Charles Ormsby – March, 2004 If you are a parent of elementary school children, you’ve probably seen it: elaborate make-work homework assignments, cutting and pasting extravaganzas, overly complex and roundabout procedures to add or multiply numbers, estimation exercises that won’t quit, and the use of calculators in place of traditional arithmetic […]