And here I was looking forward to Matrix downloads.

-- CatherineJohnson - 15 Dec 2005

good news, though

Barry is writing an article for Education Next on Singapore Math in Baltimore

I'll email and see what he makes of this article....

-- CatherineJohnson - 15 Dec 2005

I'm thinking Ken's going to have to dump the 1 standard deviation brainy-Asian business

-- CatherineJohnson - 15 Dec 2005

Students will be able to draw on insights from different fields, to think on their feet -- all to better prepare them for the demands of the innovation-driven world of the 21st century.

This is Extremely Bad Reasoning.

Americans are innovative.

Americans have lousy math curricula.

Americans are innovative because they have lousy math curricula.

-- CatherineJohnson - 15 Dec 2005

I'll have to pull the passage from LEARNING GAP about Asian longing for creativity.

He says it's a constant theme.

They admire American creativity so much, they're constantly setting up government committees to figure out how to make their own populations more creative.

-- CatherineJohnson - 15 Dec 2005

Ed said yesterday (yes! more husband quoting!) that his guess is that any Western culture will be more creative than any Eastern culture.

It's a commonplace that Asian cultures are 'consensus cultures,' which is the theme of GEOGRAPHY OF THOUGHT.

Creativity probably means, by definition, departing from the consensus in a significant way.

You're departing in a useful way, but you are departing.

-- CatherineJohnson - 15 Dec 2005

Wherever one goes in Asia, one hears the complaint that although Chinese and Japanese students show high levels of academic achievement, they lack craeativity, a characteristic Asians believe is more prevalent in American students than in their own. Committees appointed by Asian ministries of education are frequently charged with finding ways to foster greater creativity among their students.

LEARNING GAP, page 19

-- CatherineJohnson - 15 Dec 2005

"What was really amazing was the speed with which the Americans adapted themselves. . . . They were assisted in this by their tremendous practical and material sense and by their lack of all understanding for tradition and useless theories."

- Erwin Rommel, 1943.

-- CatherineJohnson - 15 Dec 2005

They just turned it around.

Americans have lousy math curricula.

Americans are creative.

Americans have lousy math curricula because they are creative.

-- CatherineJohnson - 15 Dec 2005

off topic

how do you find out blog ratings?

Ed says there's a message from Temple saying we're in some Top-10 of blog listings.....which ought to mean Kitchen Table Math gets quite a few casual visitors, since ktm is the only link at AIT.

hmm

-- CatherineJohnson - 15 Dec 2005

Animals in Translation: the blog

-- CatherineJohnson - 15 Dec 2005

I don't see how ANIMALS IN TRANSLATION could possibly be in any top 10 list

-- CatherineJohnson - 15 Dec 2005

The other thing I need to know, and I would like someone just to TELL ME THIS, as opposed to having to track down the info myself, is whether it's possible to put a meter on a Blogger blog.

-- CatherineJohnson - 15 Dec 2005

"Americans are innovative.

Americans have lousy math curricula.

Americans are innovative because they have lousy math curricula."

Hee, hee, hee hee. Good one.

"Committees appointed by Asian ministries of education..."

These education people are the same all over the world.

-- SteveH - 15 Dec 2005

One of the first things you should do is get included in the TLB Education Blog Ecosystem.

Here's the sign-up form.

-- KDeRosa - 15 Dec 2005

Then add sitemeter.

-- KDeRosa - 15 Dec 2005

Then become a technorati member and then claim your blog.

-- KDeRosa - 15 Dec 2005

And then you might want to ad youself to the This Week In Education BlogMap

-- KDeRosa - 15 Dec 2005

Hey!

Thanks!

-- CatherineJohnson - 16 Dec 2005

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