Why Johnny Can't Add

Why Johnny Can't Add: The Failure of the New Math is a book written by Morris Kline, first published in 1973. In it, Kline severely criticized the teaching practices characteristic of the "New Math" fashion for school teaching, which were based on Bourbaki's approach to mathematical research, and were being pushed into schools in the United States.[1][2] Reactions were immediate, and the book became a best seller in its genre and translated into many languages.[3]

References

  1. Jürgen Maass; Wolfgang Schlöglmann (2006). New Mathematics Education Research and Practice. Sense Publishers. p. 1. ISBN 978-90-77874-74-5.
  2. Joseph W. Dauben; Christoph J. Scriba (23 September 2002). Writing the History of Mathematics: Its Historical Development. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 458. ISBN 978-3-7643-6167-9.
  3. Fey, James T.. 1978. “U.S.A.”. Educational Studies in Mathematics 9 (3). Springer: 339–353. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3481942.

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