Grattan has just released a sequel to its recent Maths Guarantee report: a guide for primary school principals. It repeats much of their main report, and the criticisms still hold, but Grattan̵…| BAD MATHEMATICS
The VCE exam leak story is obviously big news, with both Melbourne newspapers running prominent reports and op eds, steadily increasing the heat. The Age published a strong editorial yesterday, whi…| BAD MATHEMATICS
About a decade ago, the New York Times ran an opinion piece in which the authors argued for a renewed emphasis on the traditional algorithms for arithmetic. In particular, the authors claimed and l…| BAD MATHEMATICS