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Re: Math is an Art
Posted:
Feb 22, 2012 7:42 PM
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On 2/22/12, Robert Hansen <bob@rsccore.com> wrote:
> Between my last reply and the one before that I should think that any
> reasonable person would agree that I have cleared Paul's confusion out of
> your head. Do you now care to take a crack at my premise that the
> overreaching of mathematics in this country greatly dilutes the skill and
> talent In the pool of mathematics educators?
>
If there were such an "overreach" it might. I'd say the dilution is
owing to underreach. People are capable of doing far better at
mathematics than we ask them to do.
This is apparent in the performances of many other countries, it being
far from likely that the distribution of what you are pleased to think
of as "mathematical talent" is that variable.
Does the "overreaching" of English in this country greatly dilute "the
skill and talent in the pool of" English "educators?" Or does the
dilution result from other factors?
- --Louis A. Talman
Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences
Metropolitan State College of Denver
<http://rowdy.mscd.edu/%7Etalmanl>
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