Why Johnny Can't Add Explained

Why Johnny Can't Add: The Failure of the New Math
Published:	1973
Author:	Morris Kline
Subject:	Criticism of "New Math" education

Why Johnny Can't Add: The Failure of the New Math is a 1973 book by Morris Kline, in which the author severely criticized the teaching practices characteristic of the "New Math" fashion for school teaching, which were based on Bourbaki's approach to mathematical research and were being pushed into schools in the United States.^{[1] [2]} Reactions were immediate, and the book became a best seller in its genre and was translated into many languages.^[3]

Further reading

• 1974-01-01. Review of Why Johnny Can't Add. 23769748. Bulletin of the Orton Society. 24. 210.
• Rising. Gerald R.. 1974-01-01. Review of Why Johnny Can't Add: The Failure of the New Math. 41190940. The Arithmetic Teacher. 21. 5. 450.
• Gillman. Leonard. Leonard Gillman. 1974-01-01. Review of Why Johnny Can't Add: The Failure of the New Math. 2318615. The American Mathematical Monthly. 81. 5. 531–532. 10.2307/2318615.
• Niman. John. 1973-01-01. Review of Why Johnny Can't Add: The Failure of the New Math. 2688316. Mathematics Magazine. 46. 4. 228–229. 10.2307/2688316.
• McIntosh. Jerry. 1973-01-01. Kline. Morris. Kline's 'Gutsy Appraisal': New Math Needs Overhaul. 20297438. The Phi Delta Kappan. 55. 1. 79–80.
• Peak. Philip. 1973-01-01. Review of Why Johnny Can't Add: The Failure of the New Math (L, S, P). 27959458. The Mathematics Teacher. 66. 7. 641–642.
• Moore. John W.. 1973-01-01. Why Johnny Can't Add. 42964980. Journal of College Science Teaching. 3. 2. 167–168.

External links

• Text on-line, with permission of the current copyright holders

Notes and References

1. Book: Jürgen Maass. Wolfgang Schlöglmann. New Mathematics Education Research and Practice. 2006. Sense Publishers. 978-90-77874-74-5. 1.
2. Book: Joseph W. Dauben. Christoph J. Scriba. Writing the History of Mathematics: Its Historical Development. 23 September 2002. Springer Science & Business Media. 978-3-7643-6167-9. 458.
3. Fey, James T.. 1978. “U.S.A.”. Educational Studies in Mathematics 9 (3). Springer: 339–353. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3481942.