Teaching+kids+real+math+with+computers

Math is not about calculation but rather problem modeling and solving. I'm widely considered by my peers to be mathematically gifted and I had a terrible time with multiplication tables. Not because I couldn't understand them but because I didn't see the point. After having the basic understanding of how multiplication and division work all calculations fall out of that knowledge given a little extra time or strategically placed transistors.

Her students aren't incapable of division because they haven't memorized their tables, they're incapable of doing the calculations because no major emphasis was but on the concepts of division and multiplication, only on the insufferably boring practice of memorizing a group of calculations in base 10." The video is available at the following site:media type="custom" key="7576853" http://www.ted.com/talks/conrad_wolfram_teaching_kids_real_math_with_computers.html