{"id":693,"date":"2007-07-17T02:17:46","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T02:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=693"},"modified":"2013-06-30T15:07:18","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T07:07:18","slug":"the-simpsons-on-math-education-nctm-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/the-simpsons-on-math-education-nctm-standards-693","title":{"rendered":"The Simpsons on math education (NCTM standards)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This clip has many interesting elements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gender separation to promote better learning<\/li>\n<li>Fundamental questions concerning the nature of mathematics<\/li>\n<li>The role of the teacher<\/li>\n<li>Confidence versus skills, experience versus learning<\/li>\n<li>The resignation that all are equal (and must pass) in modern assessment systems<\/li>\n<li>The correct solution for y<sup>2<\/sup> = 25. (See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/square-root-16-how-many-answers-122\">sqrt(16) - How many answers?<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Enjoy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"videoBG\">\n<p>Sorry. This video no longer exists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/the-simpsons-on-math-education-nctm-standards-693#comments\" id=\"comms\">1 Comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Simpsons give an interesting take on the craziness of maths education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}