My answer to a question on Quora:<\/p>\n
Why is math taught differently in school today? What is wrong with the way we learned it twenty years ago?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
New technological and economic environment requires a different set of mathematical skills, and taught differently, and \u2014 this is the big unmentionable \u2014 taught to much smaller number of students. What we see are death throes of the existing system of mathematics education. Politicians are keen to keep the old system of mathematics education for everyone, and for good reason \u2014 this is what their electorate expects from them.<\/p>\n
This is why there is so much confusion of what, and now, has to be taught at school – in absence of clear economic criteria, anything goes. I heard statements, made by professional mathematics educationalist at meetings at the\u00a0Department of Education<\/a>, of the kind: \u201cWhy school curriculum should contain fractions? Who of people present here had lately add 3\/4 and 7\/5? Read more in my papers\u00a0Mathematics for makers and mathematics for users<\/a> and Calling a spade a spade: Mathematics in the new pattern of division of labour<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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