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What good is it to master the mechanics of arithmetic if you don't understand it?
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Here is a list of Basic Concept posts in Mathematics.
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Here is a list of Basic Concept posts in Computer Science and Logic.
We need more mathematical analysis to counter the claims of creationists, and here's a good one: Mark Chu-Carroll has started a new weblog titled Good Math, Bad Math
My frustration with this sort of discussion - Chu-Carroll, DeTurck, the whole lot of them - is the naive belief that their own personal experiences and intuitions can answer a question like this. There's no doubt a tremendous body of cognitive research about the various ways different people learn and understand math. How can we leverage that to figure out the best and most useful way to teach math to kids?