What is more, his videos reveal an ignorance of how we know students learn mathematics. Gates has called Khan, 'the best teacher I've ever seen.' But we contend that, rather than revolutionizing mathematics teaching and learning, Khan’s work adds a technological patina to a moribund notion of teaching and learning mathematics. One person whom many feel has built a definitively better math teaching mousetrap is Salman Khan, whose free on-line library of short instructional videos has had millions of hits (170,000,000 as of this writing) and drawn heaps of praise and capital from such luminaries as Bill Gates. Nearly everyone believes that K-12 mathematics education in the United States is in desperate need of improvement. He currently coaches high school mathematics teachers in Detroit.īy Christopher Danielson and Michael Paul Goldenberg He writes the blog “Rational Mathematics Education” and was a co-founder of the group Mathematically Sane. Goldenberg holds a master’s degree in mathematics education from the University of Michigan, as well as master’s degrees in English and psychological foundations of education from the University of Florida. As of this writing, he has three badges and 11,041 energy points on Khan Academy. He maintains the blog “Overthinking My Teaching” and has written for Connected Mathematics. He teaches math at Normandale Community College in Bloomington, MN.

in mathematics education from Michigan State University.

The following was written by Christopher Danielson and Michael Paul Goldenberg. And you can find a response to that post from the founder of the Khan Academy, Sal Khan, by clicking here. Here is a new critique of the Khan Academy, the subject of a widely read post I published Monday about the hype and reality of the academy.

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