Word: lannon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...algebra taught in the ordinary classroom is "not a part of modern algebra at all." Teacher Edgar Arnold (B.E. 1930) found that "this is all new to me. I have to unlearn old symbols and learn new ones. We are casehardened with tradition." "In modern math," adds Teacher Helene Lannon, who got her master's degree as late as 1948, "we have had to learn a new vocabulary. In the traditional mathematics we would say 'cancel out numbers.' Now you say 'divide.' Traditional algebra was taught as real numbers, and it was taught by rote...