Subject:
for the list
From:
"W. Stephen Wilson" <wsw@math.jhu.edu>
Date:
Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:48:55 -0500 (EST)
To:
dmd1@lehigh.edu

Don, for the list.  Steve

Subject:  arithmetic advocacy

Many colleges and universities run a local elementary school.
Sometimes this is to make nice with the neighborhood, sometimes
to make nice with the faculty and staff, and sometimes it is
so the School of Education can experiment on the children.
There are probably other motivations as well.  

Johns Hopkins University is going to open an elementary school
in the next few years with the make-nice-with-the-neighborhood
approach.  I have the ear of the director and am trying to
get him to take seriously the idea of teaching arithmetic.

I know of some very high profile university run elementary
schools which have gutted the math curriculum of arithmetic
but the director asked me for an example of a university run
school that is done right and I didn't have one.

I have tried my usual math education experts and they have also
come up blank and so I thought I'd toss this out to a wider
group to see if I could find a college/university run elementary
school that takes arithmetic seriously.  Anyone know one?

Steve


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