AUDIO: Does Math Matter?

[Ryan Goble]

Caught this excellent forum from the 2105 Aspen Institute on NPR's Science Friday. "Does Math Matter?" The panel is outstanding (and likely very familiar to all the math nerds out there).

Does math really teach you how to think, or is that just what teachers tell you so you’ll study your integrals? In this live interview from the Aspen Ideas Festival, Ira asks mathematicians and educators Jo Boaler, Steve Strogatz, and Jordan Ellenberg if there’s a better way to learn math, and whether it might be time to revamp the age-old curriculum.

From Science Friday