Networks—New York Subways, A Piece of String, and African Traditions
Claudia Zaslavsky · The Arithmetic Teacher · 1981
Children now growing up in our rapidly advancing technological society must be prepared to cope with problems that will arise not only in this century but also in the twenty-first century. Yet we ourselves do not know what kind of society today's children will face in the future. The best we as mathematics educators can do is to encourage children to deal with new situations, to be unafraid of challenges, and to learn to think.