some snippage done throughout
Jan Coffey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jan Coffey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
William T Goodall wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/3110594.stm
Women have overtaken men at every level of
education in
Addendum: I left out the filtration and calibration
steps required in the 'high-tech' approach to
bacterial quantification, and I forget the name of the
machine used to measure light absorption and emission
at various wavelengths...bu' ith on th' tiph ah ma
tongue! :) It wasn't even necessary
At 11:38 PM 9/19/03 -0700, Deborah Harrell wrote:
some snippage done throughout
I'm not tracking here, Jan; failing to account for one
set of calculations done in kilometers and one in
miles (or feet)
If you are thinking of the loss of the Mars Polar Lander, I believe it was
actually confusion
At 11:58 PM 9/19/03 -0700, Deborah Harrell wrote:
Addendum: I left out the filtration and calibration
steps required in the 'high-tech' approach to
bacterial quantification, and I forget the name of the
machine used to measure light absorption and emission
at various wavelengths...bu' ith on th'
--- Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kevin Tarr wrote:
snip
That's a good question. As Doug has pointed out, language is a system.
I
like to think of the metaphor of idea space where the words both defines
the space and is embedded in the space. If one includes math as a
--- Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
some snippage done throughout
I also don't think that progress is only
measured by
technology and business -- particularly I don't
think
that most corporations have a shining vision of
the future- other than their own profits (of
Here's one for Ronn and Alberto:
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/ideal/ideal.htm
xponent
If Only Maru
rob
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At 03:37 AM 9/20/03 -0700, Jan Coffey wrote:
--- Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
some snippage done throughout
I also don't think that progress is only
measured by
technology and business -- particularly I don't
think
that most corporations have a shining vision of
the
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/20/opinion/20KRIS.html?ex=1064635200en=5b
524a0834fb4234ei=5062
Killing Them Softly By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
NAIROBI, Kenya
In fairness to President Bush, he presumably meant well when he cut off
funds for some of the world's most vulnerable women.
The Bush
--
If only 1,300 of the District's 67,500 students are to benefit from this
experiment, what happens to those who remain in public schools? The
education bills being debated in Congress include an additional $27
million in funding for charter and public schools.
Of the $40 million for set
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns4174
Plasma blobs hint at new form of life
19:00 17 September 03
Exclusive from New Scientist Print Edition. Subscribe and get 4 free
issues.
Physicists have created blobs of gaseous plasma that can grow, replicate
and communicate -
The Fool wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/20/opinion/20KRIS.html?ex=1064635200en=5b
524a0834fb4234ei=5062
Killing Them Softly By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
NAIROBI, Kenya
In fairness to President Bush, he presumably meant well when he cut off
funds for some of the world's most vulnerable women.
Jan Coffey wrote:
I never memorized anything by rote and I always did lousy in school but
has always been very good at taking standardized tests. Why? The
questions can be analyzed and wrong answers eliminated logically.
You have to have a lot memorized (even if it is not -as I
--- Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We are all threatened when equal rights become equal numbers. Should
Dyslexics have equal rights to become english teachers? Do you want
people
with I.Q.'s under 80 to have equal rights to be Mathmaticians? The blind
to
be fighter pilots? Well?
--- Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jan Coffey wrote:
I never memorized anything by rote and I always did lousy in school but
has always been very good at taking standardized tests. Why? The
questions can be analyzed and wrong answers eliminated logically.
Jan Coffey wrote:
--- Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But you have to memorize math too - you don't just figure things out
every time you do a problem do you?
Actualy yes, I do.
OK, 2-part question:
1) Did you take Differential Equations?
2) If so, derive the Heat
At 02:19 PM 9/20/03 -0700, Jan Coffey wrote:
--- Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We are all threatened when equal rights become equal numbers. Should
Dyslexics have equal rights to become english teachers? Do you want
people
with I.Q.'s under 80 to have equal rights to be
Jan Coffey wrote:
--- Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jan Coffey wrote:
I never memorized anything by rote and I always did lousy in school but
has always been very good at taking standardized tests. Why? The
questions can be analyzed and wrong answers eliminated logically.
Julia Thompson wrote:
Jan Coffey wrote:
--- Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But you have to memorize math too - you don't just figure things out
every time you do a problem do you?
Actualy yes, I do.
OK, 2-part question:
1) Did you take Differential Equations?
Although I realize it's not the point the author of the article was trying
to make, nor the reason it was posted to the list, a question which arises
after reading the article is why there are apparently not any private
schools available which emphasize that their academic standards are
At 07:49 PM 9/20/03 -0400, David Hobby wrote:
---David
Who somehow did memorize the quadratic formula...
Can you derive it?
-- Ronn! :)
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From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I can memorize equations more easily than that, and can apply them
properly. But I ran into a problem in high school, taking physics. The
physics teacher we had wasn't qualified to teach physics (in fact,
*nobody* in the science department was,
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 07:49 PM 9/20/03 -0400, David Hobby wrote:
---David
Who somehow did memorize the quadratic formula...
Can you derive it?
-- Ronn! :)
Certainly. Just complete the square.
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
Although I realize it's not the point the author of the article was trying
to make, nor the reason it was posted to the list, a question which arises
after reading the article is why there are apparently not any private
schools available which emphasize that their
Bryon Daly wrote:
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I can memorize equations more easily than that, and can apply them
properly. But I ran into a problem in high school, taking physics. The
physics teacher we had wasn't qualified to teach physics (in fact,
*nobody* in the science
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 07:49 PM 9/20/03 -0400, David Hobby wrote:
---David
Who somehow did memorize the quadratic formula...
Can you derive it?
Probably more easily than the heat equation. :)
Julia
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
Do you want people with I.Q.'s under 80 to have equal rights
to be Mathmaticians?
eu qero ser profesora de matematica.
ana silvia.
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Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
Who somehow did memorize the quadratic formula...
Can you derive it?
Trivial. I ddn't memorize Cardano's formula, but I can
derive it easily: eliminate term in x^2, x = u + v then
eliminate term with uv.
OTOH, I have a hard time remembering some obscure
geometry
a question which arises
after reading the article is why there are apparently not any private
schools available which emphasize that their academic standards are
superior to those of the failing public schools but which are not
associated with any religious organization? Are there indeed no
At 01:31 AM 9/21/03 +, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Ronn!Blankenship did not write:
Do you want people with I.Q.'s under 80 to have equal rights
to be Mathmaticians?
eu qero ser profesora de matematica.
ana silvia.
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