Re: Poll - your 5 favourite living pianists

"Bob Harper" <bob.harper@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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William Sommerwerck wrote:
That's six, not five.

Six is the new five.

This seems like the appropriate comment:
http://curvebank.calstatela.edu/newmath/newmath.htm

I was fortunate to avoid The New Math. The motivation for TNM was sound --
get kids to understand why they were doing something, rather than learning
by rote. The problem is that _basic_ math _should_ be taught by rote -- the
brighter kids will "get it" on their own. Trying to teach principles will
only confuse those who learn at a slower rate.

Unfortunately, it's gotten much, much worse. I recently read about current
math programs that teach things that nothing whatever, even indirectly, to
do with math.

Any science teacher who doesn't teach kids how to use a slide rule should be
fired. There are things you learn using a slide rule that are difficult to
learn using a calculator.

By the way, the original joke was "2 + 2 = 5, for large values of 2".


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