GS Chandy
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Re: Enrichment
Posted:
Aug 18, 2012 11:50 AM
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Robert Hansen (RH) posted Aug 18, 2012 10:13 AM:
> Peter, then I have to ask this. If you are so adamant
> that you can teach this student some calculus, then
> why we're you unable to teach him some algebra?
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> Bob Hansen
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Good question. But the above statement of the good question leads me to put a question to Haim:
How come you do not jeer at Bob Hansen (as you jeered at Tom at the thread "Elements of Algebra") for the egregious errors RH keeps on making in the writing (and, indeed, thinking) that he puts up here? (As exemplified by "we're" for "were" above. I personally would accept the above as a mere typo - but I do need to ask you why you went out of your way to humiliate Tom.
GSC
("Still Shoveling Away!")
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> On Aug 17, 2012, at 10:17 PM, Peter Duveen
> <pduveen@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > I would endeavor to teach students about the slope
> of a curve, and how to calculate it, and how one can
> use this knowledge to graph functions. That would be
> the beginning. It is tangible knowledge. Call it
> whatever, calculus, or something else, that's what I
> would be teaching them. But I do like to think that
> it is an introduction to calculus, not just teaching
> about calculus. And, of course, if students can plot
> a line and a parabola, they can plot many other
> functions/equations.
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