Re: Tolerable "unscience"


Dr. Dave wrote:

> (Where does trigonometry fall in the new curriculum? It's natural to
> teach it as functions on the unit circle, but the theory of periodic
> functions is the same whether you ever looked at circles or not...)

In this new cirriculum we still have circles--remember, we did teach
linear algebra. We just don't have synthetic geometry.

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