Re: “More Washington students are learning math on laptops” (Feb. 18, A1):
How well-crafted a newspaper to run an article on failing math on the entrance web page and a superbly acceptable “Non-Sequitur” cartoon about an invented math system in Comics & Puzzles.
With the method taken by our state educators, anticipate the scores to proceed to plummet. I suppose dangerous concepts by no means exit of fashion. Math is a language and a mind-set. It helps us be taught to assume by rewiring our brains and makes an attempt to short-circuit that can proceed the decline in skill. Identical to we’ve got to truly communicate a language to be taught it, we’ve got to truly do math to grasp it.
Kudos to center faculty trainer David Evans on his working to construct college students’ expertise, however the remainder of the article makes it fairly clear the true profit to the present curriculum is for the lecturers and directors (and the publishers), not the scholars.
Barry Baker, Mukilteo
