Laura Creighton <l...@openend.se> writes: > The great sticking point for the children I am teaching is '*' means > multiplication. […] that one can swap out a particular convention 'x > means multiply' and swap in another one '* means multiply' while > leaving the underlying truth unchanged.
Perhaps it would be easier if you point out that ‘x’ doesn't mean multiply either, and they've *already* been substituting that symbol instead of the correct ‘×’ for multiply. -- \ “Our task must be to free ourselves from our prison by widening | `\ our circle of compassion to embrace all humanity and the whole | _o__) of nature in its beauty.” —Albert Einstein | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
