Edward Cherlin wrote: > One of the major lessons of the New Math disaster.
Be careful what you say about the "New Math disaster". Some of the perpetrators are still alive. :) > I'm for RPN. What are you looking for? Xcalc does either algebraic or RPN. I always do RPN when I load it. It may already be on the XO -- I haven't checked. > The most important topic in math education is whether we will teach > what mathematicians do: explore and discover. And what mathematics is: > not just calculation, but the rigorous exploration of patterns of any > kind. Amen to that! I'm not *really* a mathematician in the classical sense. I'm more of a mixed programmer/software engineer/computer scientist/applied mathematician. But explore and discover is what I do (when they let me). :) _______________________________________________ Library mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library
