{"id":324,"date":"2006-07-05T03:43:03","date_gmt":"2006-07-05T03:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=324"},"modified":"2009-08-30T11:48:18","modified_gmt":"2009-08-30T03:48:18","slug":"another-attempt-at-math-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learn-math\/another-attempt-at-math-education-324","title":{"rendered":"Another attempt at math education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reasoningmind.org\/\">Reasoning Mind<\/a> was developed by a Russian mathematician because \"he had a dismal opinion of American education, from kindergarten through high school.\" (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/2006\/07\/02\/1702771.htm\">TMC.net<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>His method is Web-based and uses artificial intelligence to move the student through the learning. Some things that caught my eye:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\"Learning how to think and reason\". Great - too much of mathematics is 'Which formula do I plug it in to?'<\/li>\n<li>\"Failure is not an option\". It is a mastery-based system which I think is important. Too many students are moved to the next grade but they are certainly not ready - and this sets up problems later.<\/li>\n<li>\"Learning is hard work\". Hmmmm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Do any of you use it? Is it good?<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learn-math\/another-attempt-at-math-education-324#comments\" id=\"comms\">2 Comments<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reasoning Mind was developed by a Russian mathematician because \"he had a dismal opinion of American education, from kindergarten through high school.\" (TMC.net) His method is Web-based and uses artificial intelligence to move the student through the learning. Some things that caught my eye: \"Learning how to think and reason\". Great - too much of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}