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Saturday, July 16, 2011

Conrad Wolfram: Teaching kids real math with computers | Video on TED.com

Conrad Wolfram: Teaching kids real math with computers | Video on TED.com

Conrad Wolfram takes the stance that math is not something we should be teaching our children. More specifically the chore of hand calculating, which has been proven time and again to bore most to tears. His main question is why are we still forcing students to workout rather trivial problems with paper and pencil rather than teaching them to understand the concepts, analyze real world problems and use computers to do the grunt work? He makes a compelling argument and what he proposes is to take a considerable leap away from the old way of teaching Mathematics toward a real-world approach that will serve more practical purposes, increase our understanding of an ever increasingly mathematical society and remove the stigmas associated the learning Mathematics. Most of us have been convinced that the only way to learn math is to do math. Conrad would like to change all that so the way to learn math is to solve real interesting problems and let the computers do the math.

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