AERA-I: Education in the Professions Forum

AERA discussion list subscribers  may or may not be interested in a 
recent post "Math Wars Peace Treaty? (was Letter in latest AJP)" 
[Hake (2007)]. The abstract reads:

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ABSTRACT:  The venerated American Journal of Physics (AJP) recently 
published an acerbic editorial titled "School math books, nonsense, 
and the National Science Foundation," by the *anti-reform* math 
warrior David Klein.  Klein champions the traditional algorithmic 
drilling found by physics education researchers to be relatively 
ineffective in promoting students' conceptual understanding. 
Physicist John Clement suggested that AJP give the other side of the 
story by publishing an editorial by a *reform* math warrior.  But 
instead of contributing still further to "The Needless War Between 
Traditionalists and Progressives," I suggest that AJP consider 
publishing an editorial proposing a "Math Wars Peace Treaty," as 
proposed by Berkeley's Phil Daro (2003) and seconded by Alan 
Schoenfeld in his perceptive essay "The Math Wars."
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In order to access the entire post simply click on <http://tinyurl.com/35e6pj>.

Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
24245 Hatteras Street, Woodland Hills, CA 91367
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<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake>
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REFERENCE
Hake, R.R. 2007. Math Wars Peace Treaty? (was Letter in latest AJP). 
AERA-B post of 11 Feb 2007 07:43:27-0800; online at 
<http://tinyurl.com/35e6pj>.

AERA Division I: Education in the Professions Forum
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