What Schools Forget
Dan MurphyExposing how we traded educational freedom for institutional control, one forgotten historical truth at a time.
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Saturday I argued that the people closest to a child are the ones qualified to decide what he needs. But most parents and teachers do not know the historical foundations of education well enough to argue with anyone about what is the best w...
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K-6 grade: arithmetic. 7th grade: pre-algebra. 8th grade: algebra I. 9th grade: geometry. 10th grade: algebra II. 11th grade: pre-calculus. 12th grade: calculus.
Every school I know of has...
Tangent Was Actually a Tangent. Secant Was Actually a Secant.
In high school trig, SOHCAHTOA got me through sine, cosine, and tangent. Then we hit secant, cosecant, and cotangent, and the acronym had nothing left to give me.
My teachers told me that cotangent is the reciprocal of tangent. So I decide...
Your Grandparents Subtracted Differently
Bad news, parents. It may be time to relearn subtraction.
Your grandparents already relearned subtraction once, during the onslaught of the New Math movement in the 1960s. It turns out they relearned the wrong method.
What Schools Forget...
Don't Teach SOHCAHTOA. Not Yet.
“Why is it called sine?”
He was a sharp kid. He already understood that it equaled opposite over hypotenuse. He wanted the etymology, but I didn’t know.
I told him so, and I promised an answer the next day.
After doing a little bit of r...
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