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scoith
on Aug 13, 2012
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Stop teaching calculating; Start teaching math
His talk is fundamentally wrong. Turning real life problems into a mathematical form (in other words, modelling) is not a subject of mathematics.
dinkumthinkum
on Aug 14, 2012
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To be fair, I disagree with his position, but he is willing to call it something else, but the end of the day it is to teach his proposal as opposed what we now teach.
scoith
on Aug 14, 2012
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Using computers. And with computers, he means Mathematica.
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