What the Next Generation Needs Is Math, Not Programming

Re:What the Next Generation Needs Is Math, Not Programming by louden on Friday June 12, 2015 @10:29AM (#9706071)

Not everybody needs to know how to do math beyond arithmetic (though the opportunity should be provided).

The focus should be making sure everybody can understand the math, and especially statistics, they are presented with everyday.

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Re:What the Next Generation Needs Is Math, Not Programming by gizi on Friday June 12, 2015 @11:34AM (#9706506)

Wow. You are projecting us back to the mid-12th century, before we got hold of Algoritmi's famous book: Kitab Al-Jabr, i.e., Liber Algebrae. Before that it was only arithmetic and bits and bobs of Euclid's Elements (=Geometry). That was all they had.

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Re:What the Next Generation Needs Is Math, Not Programming by Retra on Friday June 12, 2015 @11:55AM (#9706657)

You can't understand statistics with arithmetic. At least, not any more than you can understand quantum mechanics or tensor algebra.

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