On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 1:35 PM, Peter Farrell <funcalcu...@gmail.com>
> > ... > anything that's not on the SATs is seen as suspect. > Yep. That's the whole problem. One of my fondest memories from teaching was when a student's eyes got really wide when I showed her how the parts of a list comprehension matched the structure of sigma notation. She got very excited and exclaimed, "This makes total sense! I never understood sigma before!" Living in Silicon Valley I thought we'd have a more progressive math > curriculum > I would have thought so as well, but the education industry is clearly monolithic. At the time the backwardness I found in the LA area surprised and frustrated me, but if it still exists even in SV, then it makes my experience more understandable. -- Michel =================================== "What I cannot create, I do not understand." - Richard Feynman =================================== "Computer science is the new mathematics." - Dr. Christos Papadimitriou ===================================
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