A public school in Florida built America’s greatest math team
Fascinating article. It is interesting to see how much room there (still) is for applying basic, obvious, common-sense approaches. And of course the best part is seeing the incredible impact he&#x27;s had on literally thousands of lives as a result.<p>I did find the final bit sadly ironic. The entire point of Frazer&#x27;s approach is that he looked at what the best teams were doing, came up with hypotheses about weaknesses in the approach, and experimented&#x2F;iterated from there. Fittingly, now that the politicians are paying attention, their immediate instinct is to just blindly ape the structure that he&#x27;s built -- rather than looking to instill the same <i>mindset</i> in other teachers.<p>I suppose it&#x27;s the circle of life in large, bureaucratic organizations. A decade (or a century) from now, another Frazer will come along and apply the same mindset to <i>this</i> structure -- and all the bureaucrats will be suitably impressed again.