On  Oct 7 , at 11:40 PM, Aaron Harper wrote:

When I was in school 40 years ago, everybody complained about the dreaded "story problems", or the "word problems". I later came to understand that the word problems are what it was all about.

Agreed whole heartedly. I always told my students "word problems are the only ones worth solving".

(Oh, I admit that "only" is overstating it a bit, but I exaggerated for the sake of emphasis.)


Bill Hooper
74 kg body mass*
Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA

* plus or minus a kilogram or so.


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