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Re: Ability grouping (was:Re: Affective learning in mathematics; What is math?)
Posted:
Dec 10, 1996 6:02 PM
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In article <58khg7$q81@colombia.earthlink.net>,
Carol <"Carol "@ earthlin.net> wrote:
>Reuel Nash wrote:
>> Herman Rubin wrote:
>> > In article <58h510$i4m@suba01.suba.com>,
>> > Stan Hollenbeck <chgostan@suba.com> wrote:
>> > >Michael Hodges (mwhodges@msn.com) wrote:
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>There is so much more to education than learning how to compute
>problems. If we teach our children the most advanced mathmatics
>without allowing them to communicate with each other and help each other
>out we may end up turning out a bunch of unibombers. Who wants complex
>math ability without the human connection? I certainly don't.
If you teach children how to compute problems, you are not teaching
them mathematics, but at best extended arithmetic.
Primitive societies have had people as maladjusted as the unibomber.
The word "berserk" is Viking, and the work "amok" is Malay.
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Of course I speak only for myself. But you are welcome to join me.
Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
hrubin@stat.purdue.edu Phone: (317)494-6054 FAX: (317)494-0558
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