The new math
Subtitle: a political history
By: Christopher J. Phillips
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780226184968; 9780226185019
Subjects: Mathematics; Study and teaching; Political aspects; Education and state; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-233) and index.

Text in English.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the American subject; title: The subject and the state: the origins of the new math; title: The textbook subject: mathematicians and the new math; title: The subject in itself: arithmetic as knowledge; title: The subject in the classroom: the selling of the new math; title: The basic subject: new math and its discontents; title: Epilogue.