combating innumeracy with 3D worlds: moving math from 2D symbols to 3D representations

For the first time since Euclid started the mathematics education ball rolling over 2000 years ago, we are within a generation of eradicating innumeracy and being able to bring out the mathematical ability that research has demonstrated conclusively is within (almost) everyone’s reach. Never before in the history of mathematics have we had a technology that is ideally suited to representing and communicating basic mathematics. But now, with the development of manufactured, immersive, 3D environments, we do.

2008-03-22:

it may be time to rethink the very idea of national teaching systems that with varying success prepare youngsters to join a global conversation when they grow up.

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