# Why Johnny Can't Add

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{{short description|1973 book by Morris Kline}}
{{Infobox book
| name              = Why Johnny Can't Add: The Failure of the New Math
| published         = 1973
| author            = Morris Kline
| subject           = Criticism of "New Math" education
| image             = File:Why_Johnny_Can't_Add_book_cover.jpg
}}

'''''Why Johnny Can't Add: The Failure of the New Math''''' is a 1973 book by [Morris Kline](/source/Morris_Kline), in which the author severely criticized the teaching practices characteristic of the "[New Math](/source/New_Math)" fashion for school teaching, which were based on [Bourbaki](/source/Nicolas_Bourbaki)'s approach to mathematical research and [mathematics education in the United States](/source/mathematics_education_in_the_United_States).<ref>{{cite book|author1=Jürgen Maass|author2=Wolfgang Schlöglmann|title=New Mathematics Education Research and Practice|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Js8NX11zL7QC&pg=PA1|year=2006|publisher=Sense Publishers|isbn=978-90-77874-74-5|page=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=[Joseph W. Dauben](/source/Joseph_W._Dauben)|author2=[Christoph J. Scriba](/source/Christoph_J._Scriba)|title=Writing the History of Mathematics: Its Historical Development|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oXjMYIonXTYC&pg=PA458|date=23 September 2002|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3-7643-6167-9|page=458}}</ref> Reactions were immediate, and the book became a best seller in its genre and was translated into many languages.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Fey |first=James T. |date=1978 |title=Change in mathematics education since the late 1950's - ideas and realisation U.S.A. |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3481942 |journal=Educational Studies in Mathematics |volume=9 |issue=3 |pages=339–353 |issn=0013-1954}}</ref>

==See also==
*''[Why Johnny Can't Read](/source/Why_Johnny_Can't_Read)''

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

==External links==
*[http://www.marco-learningsystems.com/pages/kline/johnny.html Text on-line, with permission of the current copyright holders]

Category:Books about mathematics education
Category:1973 non-fiction books

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