Math Education Needs to Slow Down, Stop, and Smell Its Roses

In a world built around moving and constant major changes, highlighted in the techonology industry, followers of the Slow Movement are urging people to embrace slowing down and thinking. Education experts advocate that "Slow" is crucial to mathematical education and would help students excel even when going faster rather than slower. The current math curriculum forces teachers to hurry through material and push through to squeeze out every unit, allowing little time for the students to play with numbers and really understand the math going on around them. They cite that many of the greatest mathematical breakthrows actually took hundreds of years of building and thinking about math. Without the time to think, students have lost their creatitivity, especially in math. Read the full story here.