FT09: Redesigning Math Education
Our technological society has to be maintained by people who are highly skilled in math and other sciences, yet math education has barely changed in hundreds of years. This episode looks at some of the new approaches to math education.
The guests are Peter Friess, President and CEO of the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA, Keith Devlin, Director of the H-STAR Institute at Stanford University, winner of the 2007 Carl Sagan Award for Science Popularization, and "the math guy" on National Public Radio, and Salman Khan, founder of the Khan Academy, a free online educational resource whose 1400+ instructional videos have been viewed over 16,000,000 times.