Subscribed to the podcast. Good conversation, I am going to listen to the second interview. If I had to come up with a criticism, it was that the guest audio in the first one made it hard to understand at times, but my speakerphone also is lousy so it might have been me. Keep up what you're doing, always great stuff!
You state "We’ve pretty much given up teaching rigorous math at high-school level." Do you have a citation or evidence for this statement, because it is not consistent with my experience. Of course, my experience is in my own communities and may not be what is happening elsewhere. I'm old and when I went to high school the math curriculum went through trigonometry. Calculus was a college level course. My daughter graduated from high school several years ago. She started algebra in 8th grade so she had completed precalc in 11th grade and had a choice between AP Calc or AP Statistics for her senior year. In addition, I taught Business Statistics to undergraduates for the last 32 years. Over that time, more students come to college with Calculus now than at the beginning of my career.
Subscribed to the podcast. Good conversation, I am going to listen to the second interview. If I had to come up with a criticism, it was that the guest audio in the first one made it hard to understand at times, but my speakerphone also is lousy so it might have been me. Keep up what you're doing, always great stuff!
al realignment alert! The UK is considering bringing back Imperial measurements—-another step away from Europe and closer to the US.
It would seem the Brits are going to put their foot in it.
You state "We’ve pretty much given up teaching rigorous math at high-school level." Do you have a citation or evidence for this statement, because it is not consistent with my experience. Of course, my experience is in my own communities and may not be what is happening elsewhere. I'm old and when I went to high school the math curriculum went through trigonometry. Calculus was a college level course. My daughter graduated from high school several years ago. She started algebra in 8th grade so she had completed precalc in 11th grade and had a choice between AP Calc or AP Statistics for her senior year. In addition, I taught Business Statistics to undergraduates for the last 32 years. Over that time, more students come to college with Calculus now than at the beginning of my career.