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For questions concerning the history of mathematical education and the use of historical topics in teaching mathematics.

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What was the problem with New Math? Why did it end?

During the 60s, people in the US (and also in Europe), school curricula introduces New Math where students began with set theory in the first grade before learning to perform addition or multiplicatio …
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