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This review is from: Teaching Secondary Mathematics (Paperback)
This book has an idealistic approach to math education. I'm not really sure where the authors got their info from but in many cases it's just not practical. Many of the ideas would be great in Utopia. If you have the kind of school district that lets you try out ideas without getting laid-off/fired then go for it!
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"Students should think of dy/dx as a point on a graph",
This review is from: Teaching Secondary Mathematics (Paperback)
The following quotation should be enough to prevent potential readers from wasting their time with this book: "It is important at the beginning [of calculus] that students not think of dy/dx as a ratio. They should think of it as a point on a graph." (sic, p. 397, 2001 ed.). In the event that the reader, in the interest of charity, wishes to overlook the mind-boggling nonsense of the second sentence, I should like to point out with respect to the first sentence that an author who already on the next page professes to calculate a nonzero "derivative of f(1/2)" is in no position to be pointing fingers about sloppy language.
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Teaching Secondary Mathematics by Douglas K. Brumbaugh (Paperback - May 30, 2006)
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