“Counting is something you could memorize. You could just say names, right? But it doesn’t mean you understand numbers,” she says. Carlsson-Paige argues that some of the standards in the early grades are just too rigid.” — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“People simply do not understand numbers, risk, or probability, and few things can make discussion between experts and laypeople more frustrating than this “innumeracy,” as the mathematician John Allen Paulos memorably called it. For people who believe flying is dangerous,… — Thomas M. Nichols Copy Share Image
