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ilex_cassineI remembered how to do a little calc yesterday. I was reading this article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/11/opinion/11KRIS.html
and I took his little quiz and got the right answer (even before looking at the choices).
I resent the article, though. I don't think more people knowing math is going to help our country. Everything I learned re: math/calc was so rote and unapplicable to anything I've ever done in real life that it was far more difficult then it should have been. And certainly not worth the effort, as I rarely use it.
Its a pity how much higher math gets taught as if its a language in which you can't have conversations. I've likened it to building a car in the dark when you don't know what a car is. I wish they would comibine math and physics courses instead of teaching them as separate subjects. And given it some historical perspective. That would have helped me a whole lot.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/11/opinion/11KRIS.html
and I took his little quiz and got the right answer (even before looking at the choices).
I resent the article, though. I don't think more people knowing math is going to help our country. Everything I learned re: math/calc was so rote and unapplicable to anything I've ever done in real life that it was far more difficult then it should have been. And certainly not worth the effort, as I rarely use it.
Its a pity how much higher math gets taught as if its a language in which you can't have conversations. I've likened it to building a car in the dark when you don't know what a car is. I wish they would comibine math and physics courses instead of teaching them as separate subjects. And given it some historical perspective. That would have helped me a whole lot.