DavidKleinAtAEI

I've learned from David Klein that the American Enterprise Institute posted his hand-out materials, not the speech he gave.

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excerpt:

While he was president of the NCTM, Jack Price said that minority groups and women do not learn math the same way as white males. He stated:

"... women have a tendency to learn better in a collaborative effort when they are doing inductive reasoning."

This was in contrast to the way white males learn math. According to Jack Price,

"males ... learn better deductively in a competitive environment."

This attitude toward women and minorities is consistent with the NSF funded math books. They rely heavily on superficial repetitive patterns, a form of inductive reasoning, rather than logical deduction, which is the core of mathematics.

The NCTM has attempted to redefine mathematics itself in order to support a notion of learning styles in math associated with skin color and gender.

This is misguided in the extreme.

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