My hottest education take is that we'd be better served redoing the middle school curriculum and beyond with programming, not arithmetic, as the substrate for demonstrating understanding.
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@mttaggart Even the basics of formal logic would go a long ways. When I took a formal logic course in college ( offered by the Philosophy department for some reason ) it helped fill in a lot of gaps in math and electronics concepts. If I had that in middle school, things would have been very different.

@cR0w Same! I loved that course (also, as an English major, it fulfilled my math requirement). But with specific regard to programming, my objective is to do away with the penalty of mental or manual computation in assessing mathematical understanding.

@mttaggart I'm all for that with two caveats: The students are taught enough of the suck to understand why the functions work. And the focus isn't on STEM for the sake of STEM. I don't think either is what you're implying, but I've taught long enough to see some of the ways a good idea can get derailed.

@mttaggart I reread that and I don't think I was clear. To summarize: Yes, I agree. 🍻