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 wonderfully acceptable “Non-Sequitur” cartoon about an invented math system in Comics & Puzzles.
With the strategy 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 study to assume by rewiring our brains and makes an attempt to short-circuit that may proceed the decline in capability. Identical to now we have to really converse a language to study it, now we have to really do math to grasp it.
Kudos to center college instructor 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 academics and directors (and the publishers), not the scholars.
Barry Baker, Mukilteo
