🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 26 Oct 1997 23:54:38 GMT, pdx4d@teleport.com (Kirby Urner)
wrote:

I usually avoid ad hominem follow-ups, but this misguided attempt at
attention-getting was particularly galling...


>The school activity I'm brainstorming, with assistance from 
>some professional organizers more skilled in these matters than 
>I, is a "National Walk Out of Math Class Day" (we might come up 
>with a better name for it soon).  Web pages should be popping 
>up before too long whereon various businesses and other 
>organizations, as well as individuals, register their support 
>and encouragement for this highly choreographed display of 
>civil disobedience, aimed at drawing attention to the neglected 
>and sorry state of our current USA mathematics curriculum.

Keep walking, with head down and eyes averted.  You might actually bump
into something that would knock some sense into your addled brain.


>I have recently sent a memo to Ivars Peterson, a respected 
>author and mathematics teacher, and frequent contributor to the 
>Mathematics Association of America website, about perhaps 
>securing MAA support for our campaign.[5]  That would leave the 
>NCMT as a key organization from which we'd like to attract 
>support.  I wrote the NCMT a memo in February about the math 
>curriculum upgrades we're seeking to implement by 1999 and 
>trust a lot of NCMT folks are already on board, at least in 
>spirit.[6]

It's NCTM.  Geez, this guy is really well-informed.


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