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More Truth, Less Inconvenience

This post is a continuation of the other posts about the video on YouTube entitled “An Inconvenient Truth” with M.J McDermott (not to be confused with Al Gore’s film) which concerns the dismal state of American basic math education in public schools. You can view it here.

M.J. had two good premises, but her conclusion does [...]

The Al Gore Rhythm by Anne N. Convenient Ruth

I’m tipping my mitt a little early, because the intermediate multiplication lessons are not finished yet. But I thought people should have easy access to the basic method for advanced multiplication. This is the tip of the iceberg, but everyone should at least be able to do this method. Anything less than that is either [...]

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(If you use a little imagination you can guess the title of this article.)

This article concerns M.J. McDermott’s youTube video about the sad state of basic math education in America. You can visit the video here, or you can simply scroll down to the next entry here in the Math Mojo Chronicles, where it is [...]

A Convenient Truism

First a tip of the hat to thethinkingmother blog, an interesting homeschool blog, where I found out about the video that is the subject of this post.

The title of this post is a little strong, but I want to make an important point.

No, I’m not going to rag on Al Gore.

This post is about an [...]