{"id":245,"date":"2015-07-19T18:04:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T22:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nonpartisaneducation.org\/blog1\/?p=245"},"modified":"2025-12-12T23:11:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T04:11:16","slug":"wayne-bishops-observations-on-the-aspen-ideas-festival-session-is-math-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nonpartisaneducation.org\/blog1\/2015\/07\/wayne-bishops-observations-on-the-aspen-ideas-festival-session-is-math-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Bishop&#8217;s observations on the Aspen Ideas Festival session, &#8220;Is Math Important?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Editors&#8217; Note:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>David Leonhardt is Washington Bureau Chief for the New York Times, won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on economic issues, and majored in applied mathematics as an undergraduate at Yale. Mr. Leonhardt chaired the panel, &#8220;Deep Dive: Is Math Important?&#8221; an &#8220;event&#8221; in the program track &#8220;The Beauty of Mathematics&#8221;. Other program track events included individual lectures from each of the panelists.<\/p>\n<p>Mathematicians might consider the panel composition rather odd, and ideologically one-sided. Three panelists are not mathematicians, but are wholehearted believers in constructivist approaches to math education, often derided as &#8220;fuzzy math&#8221;. Two of them claim, ludicrously, that high-achieving East Asian countries teach math their way. The aforementioned panelists are: journalist Elizabeth Green, education professor Jo Boaler, and College Board&#8217;s David Coleman, with a degree in English lit and classical philosophy. When only one side is allowed to talk, of course, it can make any claims it likes.<\/p>\n<p>Watch for yourself: Aspen Ideas Festival: <a href=\"http:\/\/video.pbs.org\/video\/2365521689\/\">Deep Dive: Is Math Important?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/video.pbs.org\/video\/2365521689\/<\/p>\n<p>Professor Bishop&#8217;s essay, written in the form of a letter to David Leonhardt, can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/nonpartisaneducation.org\/Review\/Essays\/v11n1.pdf\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/nonpartisaneducation.org\/Review\/Essays\/v11n1.pdf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editors&#8217; Note: David Leonhardt is Washington Bureau Chief for the New York Times, won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on economic issues, and majored in applied mathematics as an undergraduate at Yale. Mr. Leonhardt chaired the panel, &#8220;Deep Dive: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nonpartisaneducation.org\/blog1\/2015\/07\/wayne-bishops-observations-on-the-aspen-ideas-festival-session-is-math-important\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,32,46,47,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-fraud","category-k-12","category-math","category-mathematics","category-wayne-bishop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonpartisaneducation.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonpartisaneducation.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonpartisaneducation.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonpartisaneducation.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonpartisaneducation.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nonpartisaneducation.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1511,"href":"https:\/\/nonpartisaneducation.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/1511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonpartisaneducation.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonpartisaneducation.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonpartisaneducation.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}