The Longest Now


The Million Problems project: the world’s best problems in each discipline
Thursday November 22nd 2012, 6:17 pm
Filed under: international,metrics

This is a project I’ve had in mind for some time. From where do you draw your favorite problems? For a bit of inspiration, here is an excellent and insightful essay on why math education is so much stronger in Russia (for instance) than in the US and Brazil (for instance), focusing on the appreciation for and use of word problems.

Word Problems in Russia and America by Andrei Toom (↬ Jacob Rus)


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