Chapter Four- Good Old Days

As you can see, I haven't progressed very far in my reading. My new plan is to read a chapter a day...we'll see how that works out. I enjoyed reading Chapter Four and the history of math education from Seeley's perspective. We certainly have been all over the board in our attempt to "improve" math curriculum and I'm not sure we have progressed much beyond the elementary math classrooms of the 40's and 50's. A pretty scary thought, huh? I know we are making progress with SDC and I'm hoping that after 6 years of guidance the SDC teacher leaders will have changed intrinsically and will be making a difference. I am haunted by a comment on page 21 "Yet resistance to change seems to be a natural human quality". Do you think that is true? If so, how can we advocate and implement mathematics changes for the good of our students?