29 Jul
2012
29 Jul
'12
11:14 p.m.
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 9:33 PM, <rcs@xmission.com> wrote:
Rather than reprise the arguments pro & con, I'd like to pose a puzzle:
Why do so many people find math too hard?
I think the toughest memorization task is learning the multiplication table, and the most complex widely taught algorithm is long division. Both of these are now 'calculator' jobs, which ought to make easier the problem of solving 2x = 5. Somehow, it hasn't. What's the difficulty?
Not enough people playing Dragon Box. -- Mike Stay - metaweta@gmail.com http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~mike http://reperiendi.wordpress.com