Thursday, October 16, 2014

MO, MU & ME (From The Kansas City Star)

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MU gets $2.3M to Study Math Education
Associated Press (10/16/14)

Columbia, MO

The University of Missouri is using a four-year grant
of nearly $2.3 million to study elementary school math education.
The grant to the Columbia campus comes from the National Science Foundation.



Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article2893973.html#storylink=cpy
In a state known as MO (Missouri),
a campus known as MU (Missouri University)
is in a position to help ME (as in Paul Oliverio,
the educator responsible for the only complete proof
of the Pythagorean Theorem that you can dance to.)

For example, put me in a room with
Kansas City elementary school teachers,
and I will show them how to make
Mathemagic out of the following information:
 


123456789 R H E
BAL 010000000 1 3 0
KC 00010100- 2 7 0
W: J. Frasor (1-0)
L: W. Chen (0-1)
S: G. Holland (3)

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