Re:Stop teaching calculating; Start teaching math
by scoith on Monday August 13, 2012 @05:07PM
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His talk is fundamentally wrong. Turning real life problems into a mathematical form (in other words, modelling) is not a subject of mathematics.
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Re:Stop teaching calculating; Start teaching math
by dinkumthinkum on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @12:54AM
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To be fair, I disagree with his position, but he is willing to call it something else, but the end of the day it is to teach his proposal as opposed what we now teach.