Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 58.  Today we are discussing Meaningful Mathematics.

In today’s episode I’d like to read a portion of an article that comes from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.  Normally I only link to articles on NCTM’s site that you can access for free. This article is not available for free but this article is just too good not to talk about...plus NCTM is doing a free trial of their membership right now.  I’ll link to that free trial over at buildmathminds.com/58.  When you do the free trial make sure to select the option to receive access to the online archive of the Teaching Children’s Mathematics journal, that’s the journal that this article was published in.

On pages 312-313, William Brownell writes...