Why concentrate on the quadratic. Everyone deals with loans and interest rates and investments. I'd say exponentials and logarithms are more widely useful than polynomials. Brent Meeker On 8/5/2012 4:52 PM, Henry Baker wrote:
I keep hoping that someone will do a better job rebutting the Times editorial. But I haven't even been able to come up with a good elementary example for the use of the quadratic formula. (Perhaps the best uses of the quadratic formula come with trig; but somehow, I can't see convincing the general population about trigonometry.)
Maybe he's right, after all... ;-)
At 05:42 AM 8/4/2012, Robert Baillie wrote:
Many of you might find this article interesting: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/03/1109331/-In-Laymen-s-Terms-a-segue-...
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