I like how they say "absolutely must" - it's a sign of deep belief and the same sort of thing needed for any successful sales job.
I'm not completely convinced myself, of course. If I was completely convinced then I would imagine that Sir William Thomson (a.k.a. Lord Kelvin)'s contributions to mathematics, science and society were clearly superior to those of Oliver Heaviside. But I often imagine the opposite. Still, as a sales tactic? Most admirable. Thanks, -- Raul On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 12:37 PM, robert therriault <[email protected]>wrote: > I saw this blog post today on what it would be like if math was taught as > an fine arts program. This might be even more effective it it were to > include an experimental aspect provided by J. > > > http://j2kun.svbtle.com/what-would-math-class-look-like-if-it-were-a-fine-art > > Cheers, bob > > On Feb 21, 2014, at 9:15 AM, km <[email protected]> wrote: > > > About teaching, a standard university curve is 10 20 40 20 10 percent > for grades of A B C D F. When I was teaching math, I addressed mostly the > middle 40 per cent, but I made sure to include some material aimed at the > top 30 per cent, and some aimed at the top 10 per cent. > > > > --Kip Murray > > > > Sent from my iPad > > > >> On Feb 21, 2014, at 9:26 AM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Why can't it be both a table and "just a bunch of lines"? > >> > >> I know that when you are teaching a large set of students you need to > >> address the intersection of their abilities. And I understand that once > we > >> set up ways of thinking for ourselves we tend to like following those > >> patterns in other contexts. But we also tend to like discovery and > learning > >> new things and if we adhere *too* strictly to our old habits we miss > some > >> of the joys of discovery. > >> > >> That said, these questions are not actual programming and I do not know > if > >> you are subscribed to the chat forum, so I am going to Cc you directly. > I > >> also decided to clean up the subject line, since I am not sure I like > the > >> way the mail forum software handles these things. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> -- > >> Raul > >> > >> > >> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
