Why Johnny Can't Add
{{short description|1973 book by Morris Kline}}
{{Infobox book
| name = Why Johnny Can't Add: The Failure of the New Math
| published = 1973
| author = Morris Kline
| subject = Criticism of "New Math" education
| image = File:Why_Johnny_Can't_Add_book_cover.jpg
}}
Why Johnny Can't Add: The Failure of the New Math is a 1973 book by Morris Kline, in which the author severely criticized the teaching practices characteristic of the "New Math" fashion for school teaching, which were based on Bourbaki's approach to mathematical research and were being pushed into schools in the United States.{{cite book|author1=Jürgen Maass|author2=Wolfgang Schlöglmann|title=New Mathematics Education Research and Practice|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Js8NX11zL7QC&pg=PA1|year=2006|publisher=Sense Publishers|isbn=978-90-77874-74-5|page=1}}{{cite book|author1=Joseph W. Dauben|author2=Christoph J. Scriba|title=Writing the History of Mathematics: Its Historical Development|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oXjMYIonXTYC&pg=PA458|date=23 September 2002|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3-7643-6167-9|page=458}} Reactions were immediate, and the book became a best seller in its genre and was translated into many languages.{{Cite journal |last=Fey |first=James T. |date=1978 |title=Change in mathematics education since the late 1950's - ideas and realisation U.S.A. |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3481942 |journal=Educational Studies in Mathematics |volume=9 |issue=3 |pages=339–353 |issn=0013-1954}}
See also
References
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Further reading
- {{Cite journal|date=1974-01-01|title=Review of Why Johnny Can't Add|jstor=23769748|journal=Bulletin of the Orton Society|volume=24|pages=210}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Rising|first=Gerald R.|date=1974-01-01|title=Review of Why Johnny Can't Add: The Failure of the New Math|jstor=41190940|journal=The Arithmetic Teacher|volume=21|issue=5|pages=450}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Gillman|first=Leonard|authorlink=Leonard Gillman|date=1974-01-01|title=Review of Why Johnny Can't Add: The Failure of the New Math|jstor=2318615|journal=The American Mathematical Monthly|volume=81|issue=5|pages=531–532|doi=10.2307/2318615}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Niman|first=John|date=1973-01-01|title=Review of Why Johnny Can't Add: The Failure of the New Math|jstor=2688316|journal=Mathematics Magazine|volume=46|issue=4|pages=228–229|doi=10.2307/2688316}}
- {{Cite journal|last=McIntosh|first=Jerry|date=1973-01-01|editor-last=Kline|editor-first=Morris|title=Kline's 'Gutsy Appraisal': New Math Needs Overhaul|jstor=20297438|journal=The Phi Delta Kappan|volume=55|issue=1|pages=79–80}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Peak|first=Philip|date=1973-01-01|title=Review of Why Johnny Can't Add: The Failure of the New Math (L, S, P)|jstor=27959458|journal=The Mathematics Teacher|volume=66|issue=7|pages=641–642}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Moore|first=John W.|date=1973-01-01|title=Why Johnny Can't Add|jstor=42964980|journal=Journal of College Science Teaching|volume=3|issue=2|pages=167–168}}
External links
- [http://www.marco-learningsystems.com/pages/kline/johnny.html Text on-line, with permission of the current copyright holders]
Category:Books about mathematics education
Category:1973 non-fiction books
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