Why do some students, professors and advisors argue against C&M?
Lots of students, professors and advisors have excelled in their studies of traditionally taught mathematics courses. They feel good about the old ways and often have the idea that everyone must learn the way they did. What they forget is that many others did not excel and were turned off by the old ways. Back to Top Q: Some folks have claimed calculators have nearly ruined grade school and high school math education. Won’t the use of computers in C&M ruin math education completely? A: Misuse of technology is a big problem in many mathematics classes – often with disastrous results. The problem is that the course texts were not written with technology in mind. Instead technology is injected as a layer in a text whose orginal edition is likely to have been written years ago – before calculators and computers were on the scene. The C&M courses are the first math courses to be written from the start with the computer in mind. The computer is woven throughout the courses and is often used
