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Actress Yolande Donlan. "Probably by algebra, but not by me"). But to others, the fad merely strengthened their conviction that there was something basically wrong with making children determine their whole future by the eleven-plus ordeal. "The invention of the devil!" cried the Rev. Arthur Morton, Director of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. "I say that future historians will condemn us as much for this as we rightly condemn the people who made young children work in mines...
...John? As Beberman and Page see it, high-school math has sunk to its present state because students learn their theorems and formulas for an array of algebra problems ("If John is twice as old as Jane was four years ago . . ."), but never find out what makes the mathematician's brain work. In the hope of making arithmetic lively, some teachers insist on making each problem functional, as if there were nothing more to the subject than how to add up a grocery bill or compute compound interest. Such teachers completely misunderstand the adolescent, says Beberman. "The adolescent...
...large extent, Beberman and Page have cast aside the traditional tags (algebra, geometry, trigonometry, etc.) that tend to make math seem a series of separate and unattached compartments. "Frequently," says Beberman, "our students do not know whether they are doing geometry or algebra at any given point.'' But the basic intent is to reveal math as a "creative process in which we want our students to participate." Instead of telling students how to solve equations, "we just explain to them what the root of an equation is and then give them 30 pages of problems and tell them...
...survey of high-school seniors, investigators found that 12% had never taken any algebra or geometry, 26% had dropped mathematics after only one year, 30% had dropped it after two. Nor was this merely a matter of dullness or inability. Of the brightest 30%, four in ten never went beyond elementary arithmetic...
...story after story (these 42 represent the best of four collections O'Flaherty has written), O'Flaherty spells out in the arithmetic of prose what the great Yeats, said in the algebra of poetry...