Re:Sussman Explains the End of SICP
by civilized on Saturday February 04, 2023 @07:16PM
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> I heard a story once, that for a while France was teaching math to kids from first principles. Like trying to teach about number sets before diving into other topics. It was hard and abstract. They stopped.
This is less about the French having too high standards and more about the French not understanding how people learn, especially children of ordinary ability and interest in mathematics.
They followed trendy, hyper-abstract, superficially sophisticated theories - as they tend to do in many arenas - and now their students score the worst in the EU, and the French education minister has removed it from the common core high school curriculum. https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/france-in-focus/2022052...
This is less about the French having too high standards and more about the French not understanding how people learn, especially children of ordinary ability and interest in mathematics.
They followed trendy, hyper-abstract, superficially sophisticated theories - as they tend to do in many arenas - and now their students score the worst in the EU, and the French education minister has removed it from the common core high school curriculum. https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/france-in-focus/2022052...