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  1. Xref: sparky sci.math:14703 misc.education:4226
  2. Newsgroups: sci.math,misc.education
  3. Path: sparky!uunet!sun-barr!ames!news.hawaii.edu!uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu!lady
  4. From: lady@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Lee Lady)
  5. Subject: Re: Is Math Hard?
  6. Message-ID: <1992Nov10.083705.2187@news.Hawaii.Edu>
  7. Followup-To: sci.math,misc.education
  8. Summary: Card games
  9. Sender: root@news.Hawaii.Edu (News Service)
  10. Nntp-Posting-Host: uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
  11. Organization: University of Hawaii (Mathematics Dept)
  12. References: <7NOV199220215368@cycvax.nscl.msu.edu> <ccDyTB3w164w@allen.com> <1992Nov10.004159.29572@news.Hawaii.Edu>
  13. Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 08:37:05 GMT
  14. Lines: 19
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  17. In article <1992Nov10.004159.29572@news.Hawaii.Edu> I write:
  18. >
  19. >Finally, I would like to say that if I were in Eric Green's situation (in
  20. >which I would be much less successful than he is) I would start having my
  21. >students measure things.  I suspect that they would learn more
  22. >mathematics in wood shop than in arithmetic class.  
  23.  
  24. I think that card games are also very useful in teaching young children
  25. mathematics.  Some of them, such as blackjack, require a certain amount
  26. of arithmetic and a lot, like canasta, involve keeping score.  But I
  27. think that almost any card game does some good by focusing a child's
  28. attention on numbers as something worth paying attention to. 
  29.  
  30. --
  31. It is a poor sort of skepticism which merely delights in challenging
  32. those claims which conflict with one's own belief system.  
  33.                                                           --Bogus quote 
  34. lady@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu         lady@uhunix.bitnet
  35.