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- Subject: Re: Is Math Hard?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.044851.1@cc.curtin.edu.au>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 19:48:51 GMT
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- In article <Bx79Lo.LG1@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov4.044300.15766@cbfsb.cb.att.com> wa2ise@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (robert.f.casey) writes:
- >
- > ........................
- >
- >>In 5th grade, we did set theory (at least the simple stuff). At the time,
- >>I couldn't believe that we were doing such easy stuff instead of hard
- >>long division and such. But it seemed that the teacher and the rest of
- >>the class had a hard time figuring it out. And I'm no rocket scientist.
- >>Unions, intersections, subsets, and such stuff that turns out to be a bit
- >>similar to and gates and or gates in logic design.
- >
- > From the experiences when people who had an understanding of mathematics
- > taught it, most of the children could get some grasp of the subject. But
- > failure of the attempts to teach the teachers was what killed the new math.
- >
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- In 6th grade, I was in one of schools in W.A. that did 'new maths'. Set theory,
- number theory, topology and a few others. It was great...
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- It was kill deader than a magot by the parents and teachers who didn't under-
- stand it and "... can't see whats it's good for..."
-
- ~Paul
-