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Re: RE: What is Mathematics (say, is this RE:-cursion?)
Posted:
Jul 20, 1995 3:20 AM
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Dennis worte:
>The Scientific Method is a paradigm
or mantra that both informs science education and gives students a home base:
they can understand that even though washing out the glassware is a drag, it
has a purpose within the SCIENTIFIC METHOD (elimination of irrelevent
variables; repeatability;) and that the SCIENTIFIC METHOD pays off. They can
read about how the great scientists applied the SCIENTIFIC METHOD, and so on.
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Very well! This is the point I have tried to deliever all the time.
I don't see why we can not bring the same good things to kids
even within the context of formal mathematics. Don't misunderstand me, I
don't mean to say that the applied part of math is not important, but again,
it can also be very boring.
Chi-Tien
(has people notices that we all become too careful with the wording, otherwise
we will immediately got attacked simply because you have been labelled as
anti-reform, anti-Standards, anti-revolution...., and be accused of saying
someting you did not say.)
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