Minutes of Central Coast Chapter of SAR, Saturday, Feb. 17, 2018
Michael Buckman received Supplemental Recognition.
Chris has the flu and was thoughtful enough to not share it with us.
Ergo, no previous meeting minutes were available to read but could be read
at the next meeting. Gary Cooper is under the weather, also.
The Treasurer reported a balance of $4,841.30.
Our speaker was introduced by John Siler with some amusing anecdotal math
humor...If there is such a thing.
Guest Speaker
Barry Garelick, an author of two books; Letters From John Dewey, And
Letters From Huck Finn, was our very well prepared and learned speaker. He
is a Michigan graduate with advanced degrees from other places and Federal
Employment in his background. He discussed in considerable detail the
current state of Mathematics as being taught at levels beginning at
home (somewhat discouraged), going from K to 12 and into college and
beyond. The evolution, the beginning of which isn’t clear to me-but
sometime in the last century, I think, includes traditional math
(memorization-pretty much out of use), New Math (launched in the sixties
with Sputnik and failing in the seventies), followed by something created
by NCTM (National Council of Math Teachers) in 1989 that might work. Don’t
know! The upshot of all this (my interpretation) is that computers and
calculators in the hands of the generation now being educated and one day to be
in charge have replaced the formerly required skills of being able to do
addition, multiplication tables, and long division on paper with pen or
pencil. Oh, Dear!
Barry says there’s hope, however. His daughter
Angie was in attendance. She very likely can do math in her head!
There was no old or new business, and following The S. A. R.
closing Pledge, we adjourned at about 1430 hours.
Respectfully and one hopes somewhat accurately submitted in substitution
for the real Secretary,
David Atlee Tissue
Guest Speaker Garry Garelick
Michael Buckman and Russ Haynes
