Interestingly BoingBoing put this up today:
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The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul
Erdőshttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1596433078/downandoutint-20is
a beautifully written, beautifully illustrated kids' biography of Paul
Erdős, the fantastically prolific itinerant
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 08:44:09AM +0800, Charles Haynes wrote:
at least in the USA it's clear that girls are steered away from STEM
curricula by a variety of mechansims, primarily social. Girls aren't
supposed to like Maths, and so they don't. Girls that show an interest or
aptitude are
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On 06/26/2013 04:15 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 08:44:09AM +0800, Charles Haynes wrote:
at least in the USA it's clear that girls are steered away from STEM
curricula by a variety of mechansims, primarily social. Girls aren't
On 6/26/13 1:15 AM June 26, 2013, Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 08:44:09AM +0800, Charles Haynes wrote:
at least in the USA it's clear that girls are steered away from STEM
curricula by a variety of mechansims, primarily social. Girls aren't
supposed to like Maths, and so they
What makes us detest certain subjects at school, and why
is Maths (or Math) frequently at the top of the list?
cf http://www.maa.org/devlin/lockhartslament.pdf
at least in the USA it's clear that girls are steered away from STEM
curricula by a variety of mechansims, primarily social. Girls aren't
supposed to like Maths, and so they don't. Girls that show an interest or
aptitude are subtly or not so subtly told that this is inappropriate, that
they're
On Fri, 2013-06-21 at 22:10 +0530, Deepa Mohan wrote:
I wrote this some time agosomeone else referred to it on FB
recently
(yes...a woman.) What makes us detest certain subjects at school, and
why
is Maths (or Math) frequently at the top of the list? It can't always
be
bad teachers
Maths teaching in Indian schools demands that a certain degree of math
skill must be acquired in a specified period of time and proof of such
skill be demonstrated in an examination in which you are supposed to do
math and get all the answers right within, you guessed it, a specified
period
On Sat, 2013-06-22 at 09:38 +0530, Ingrid wrote:
True confession: I love Maths.
So do I actually, but I am (only slightly) hampered by lack of knowledge
of anything more than elementary math with some algebra and
trigonometry. I am always calculating things in my mind. I know for a
fact that I
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
http://deponti.livejournal.com/902082.html
I find that a lot of people on this list articulate far, far better than I
do. It would help me understand my lifelong aversion to mathematics...and
In my case the subjects I
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 10:56 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
In other words, if I had had teachers who gave me the context for why we
were studying something it would have made a world of difference. I would
extend such teaching of the context to things beyond the natural sciences.
It
I have always found maths disgusting during school (where i scored well enough
in it) and college (where I didn't), and today I find myself using maths to a
larger and more practical extent than before - balancing a mutual fund
portfolio and at work, pulling data and running numbers on it to
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
I wrote this some time agosomeone else referred to it on FB recently
(yes...a woman.) What makes us detest certain subjects at school, and why
is Maths (or Math) frequently at the top of the list? It can't always be
On 22-Jun-2013, at 8:19, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
Maths is hated because it is like running, it uses ridiculous amounts
of energy.
The other factor is an opportunity cost in just where you want to spend those
ridiculous amounts of energy. Like a nobel prize winning author
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 10:56 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
In other words, if I had had teachers who gave me the context for why we
were studying something it would have made a world of difference. I would
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.comwrote:
Your motivation may vary. For those with a strong self improvement
desire - like Thaths, seeing the logical connection with applications
might be the key to expending mental energy.
I don't know if it can be termed
On 21-Jun-2013, at 10:10 PM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
I wrote this some time agosomeone else referred to it on FB recently
(yes...a woman.) What makes us detest certain subjects at school, and why
is Maths (or Math) frequently at the top of the list? It can't always be
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