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Re: Brainstorming about STEM (was About Functions)
Posted:
Dec 24, 2011 11:00 PM
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Mine was not "great" but the environment was great. I am not alone
in PhD's in mathematics whose mathematics career began with this. I
had no idea what I wanted do (other than get the hell off the farm!)
but teaching high school mathematics seemed well within my limited
horizon at the time. I liked the geometry course best of all and
could not understand why so many students - some of whom are
considered to be quite bright - were having so much trouble with it
and I really enjoyed helping them understand what seemed so obvious to me.
Wayne
At 10:02 AM 12/24/2011, Joe Niederberger wrote:
>By the way Wayne, I agree with you that starting with symbolic
>logic, and very formal systems is not a good introduction to
>mathematical proving. I had a great teacher of traditional Euclidean
>Geometry in 10th grade, and I wish my sons could have had the same.
>
>Joe N
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