By hiding math's great masterpieces from students' view, we deny them the beauty of the subject. How our 1,000-year-old math curriculum cheats America's kids - Los Angeles Times ...

July 13 -- It has been around the world, battered and burned, then left to grow damp and moldy.Yet within its parchment pages lie the secrets of Archimedes’ mind. It looks like an ancient prayer ...

Modern math and science have one man to thank: Euclid, a Greek mathematician who, in 300 BC, wrote Euclid’s Elements, a 13-book treatise on geometric and numerical theory. In 1482, it became one ...

Elementary schools that perform at average or above on a countywide test will have the opportunity to continue using a popular math textbook. The School Board has chosen Harcourt Brace’s Math… ...

How our 1,000-year-old math curriculum cheats America's kids ...