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From: tlh@cs.purdue.EDU (Thomas L. Hausmann)
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Subject: Re: Learning arithmetic
Summary: Sidenote
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Date: 22 Feb 88 17:05:35 GMT
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> In my original message, it was the "New Math" with terms like
> "commutative" which are hard for a child to *say*, let alone
> relate to its experience, that I claimed was boring and remote.

  For me, that is what made math fun in elementary school -- was more
  than the usual arithmetic "stuff"

  -Tom