Juha Haataja: Universe of ScienceMathematics, Biosciences, Chemistry, Popular Science, and Science Writing.Do you know mathematics How about your children- January 31, 2007 The Declining Quality of Mathematics Education in the US: "Mathematics education seems to be very subject to passing trends - surprisingly more so than many other subjects. The most notorious are, of course, the rise of New Math in the 60s and 70s, and the corresponding backlash against it in the late 70s and 80s. It turns out that mathematics education, at least in the US, is now subject to a new trend, and it doesn't appear to be a good one." kuro5hin.orghttp://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/science/2007/01/31.html#a4771 Two new columns this year- January 17, 2007 What if cars had toilets My column on the "too many features" phenomenon appeared on Monday (in Finnish, Ominaisuuksien vankina). I have been reading the excellent Australian book "The Triumph of the Airheads and the Retreat from Commonsense" (Park Street Press, 2006). I wrote a column on this book on January 2nd. There are a lot of airheads in Finland - and the number is increasing rapidly (in Finnish, Ilmapäiden voitto ja ymmärryksen häviö).http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/science/2007/01/17.html#a4760 |