As a sort of tie-in to yesterday's Lehrer celebration, I was wondering what exactly the "New Math" really was. I knew that it introduced higher-order mathematics concepts at an earlier age, but what was the point?
Apparently it consisted of visualizing algebra problems with rows of physical objects instead of variables.
And this is supposed to be more efficient than the Old Math...how?
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