Small world
by rrusczyk, Mar 22, 2007, 12:45 AM
I'm at the NCTM Convention - tonight I went to dinner with a couple people from the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation (note to non-seniors: put the Coca-Cola Scholarship on your list of scholarships to apply for). The other Coca-Cola Scholar at the dinner is a coach of the MN ARML team, an AoPSer, and uses AoPS with his students. He had a great line on comparing the pre-Algebra book with the Algebra book his school used (before he axed the pre-Algebra class altogether). He said that the Algebra I book was the same book as the pre-Algebra book, but with one more chapter. That, in a nutshell, describes a lot of why the standard curriculum utterly fails students who have an interest in mathematics.
Don't know if I'll be able to go, though.
). I think I learned more from AoPS 2, though, than at least the past four years of math combined.
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