Arthur Benjamin’s Formula For Changing Math Education

June 30th, 2009

I am speechlessly in agreement with this:

I’ve ranted about math education before. There’s something just so effective about his three-minute stated solution to the problem. I dig it. I never use calculus, but statistics? Easily on a weekly basis.

Instead of our students learning about the technique of calculus, I think it would be far more significant if all of them knew what “two standard deviations from the mean” means, and I mean it.

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