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Re:Do the math: too much calculus? (2012) by asimeqi on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @06:03PM (#12748105)
It was L. P. Benezet, superintendent of schools in Manchester, New Hampshire, who experimented with teaching no math in the first five grades in the early 1930s. See for example https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201003/wh...
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Re:Do the math: too much calculus? (2012) by abecedarius on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @10:28PM (#12749414)
Thanks! There's also his own report: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/benezet/1.html
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