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...away. He has the right to protect his ideas from the competition. There is a danger in having a monopoly in this business, but it is unfair to split up Microsoft. Just because there is competition does not mean that you give away the formula for your success. MICHAEL SCHMID Berlin...
...Wilfried Schmid (Opinion, "New Battles in the Math Wars," May 4) used student performance on a MCAS question--what is 256 x 98--as the basis to describe the ills of school mathematics programs and attempts at reform. Yet before we go too far with this, let's take a closer look...
...Along with tens of thousands of other practicing elementary and secondary math teachers, I would dispute many of the claims that Wilfried Schmid (Opinion, May 4) laid against "reform" mathematics...
...Schmid is simplistic on calculators, incorrect on "downgrading skills," hyperbolic on the "avant garde reformers," irrational on textbook economics, ill-informed on "statistical studies and anecdotal evidence," inverted on the role of "understanding" in the "New Math " of the 60's (except that it was, indeed, "the mathematicians" who pushed that misguided effort into our schools) and tangential about "textbooks." He is correct to call for continuing improvement in teacher education to support more challenging mathematics in every classroom, but wrong to downplay the central role of pedagogy in pre-college math classrooms...
...Wilfried Schmid is Dwight Parker Robinson Professor of Mathematics. Earlier this year, he served as a mathematics advisor to the Massachusetts Department of Education...