Wherein we excoriate Everyday Mathematics and also demonstrate the plausibility of letting secondary-grade students use calculators
As Joanne Jacobs notes (hat tip), some of the questions on the NYC-used and Texas-rejected Everyday Mathematics series are just absurd: if math were a color, a food, a type of weather, or a political party, … oh, wait. We have a mashup: if your political party were a color, what would it be? I’ve […]