STEM: Is the "New Math" Here Again?

By Laura Seargeant Richardson - March 7, 2011

“The public now demands better education.  It doesn't know what good education is, and it fears every particular manifestation of it, but it is so far committed that it will accept, if only for a while, a certain number of genuine reforms.  When enough of these reforms have been adopted, the public will feel free to call it a day.  The job, they will say, is done.”

Math Professor, Ralph A. Raimi on New Math, June 29, 1958

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