... her the often overlooked but imperative connection between literacy and mathematics. Our initial confusion is addressed by the article's author, Edwin E. Moise. According to him, math in elementary school should impose less of the "drill-to-death" method. Children at that stage in life have an innate learning ... of their senses to soak up anything foreign to them. They are products of their environment. They want to know who, what, when, where, and why all of the time. Math classes at that level begin to discourage that uninhibited curiosity by teaching students fixed steps to reach a sp...

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