Re: Paul Lockhart's book reviewed in the L.A. Times!

From: Georgie Hinklemyer <samoolives_at_yahoo.com_at_hypermail.org>
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 01:13:09 -0000

Quite the reverse. Geometry was pure memorization, whereas with algebra you have a set of rules (equations) and you can simply plug new numbers in and get a new answer each time! Much easier than trying to remember side-side-angle..or was it angle-angle-side?
--G.H.


--- In OliveStarlightOrchestra_at_yahoogroups.com, Joy McCann <joy.mccann@...> wrote:
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> I loved geometry; no numbers. Numbers make my mind go blank.
> ---J
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> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Christophe <xof_at_...> wrote:
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> > On Apr 15, 2009, at 7:08 PM, tschibasch wrote:
> > > People who went into mathematics and stuck with it and later entered
> > > technical fields should be commended.
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> > I've always called myself the world's worst mathematician (I nearly
> > flunked out of UCLA because, for some insane reason, I decided to take
> > honors calc). Indeed, that's why I ended up being a linguistics major.
> >
> > Discrete math and trig, however, I rocked at, which always struck me
> > as curious.
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