Re: Compression and crypto

Douglas A. Gwyn wrote:
Luc The Perverse wrote:
Surely there has to be some organization somewhere, no matter how
informal, that shares the basic principle that we are discussing.

Sure, there *ought* to be. I don't happen to know of one.

NCTM (National Council for Teaching Mathematics) in 2000 came up
with a revised set of guidelines for K-12 math education. (The
perceived problems they were attempting to address were not
exactly the same as the ones we've been discussing, although
there is some overlap.) Unfortunately, it was primarily prepared
by some of the same professional educators who seem to be part
of the problem.

This part of the problem is common to many soft sciences - once any sort of consensus is reached on how a thing work or is done, the only way to publish is to refute the common beliefs and strike out in a new direction - even if it is crap


Fortunately, several real mathematicians were
able to provide feedback in time so that some of the worst issues
in the draft guidelines were remedied. At least if the guidelines
were widely implemented, the overall situation would be improved.

As to good lists of recommended textbooks, I don't know of any
other than some personal lists and some newsgroup FAQs.
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