personally I fell in love when the teacher cancelled all the coefficients -- order of magnitude, what a concept ;) the exponent of an expnent stuff was fun too.
On 3/14/08, G Money <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > EW! I hate it already. > > I knew I loved math that first day of my Diffy Q class when we worked on a > single problem the entire hour that took up several white boards. > > awesome fun. > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:35 PM, William Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > I'm still not sure I get it. So like....taking a word problem and > > working > > > up an equation that could be used to solve it? Is that fuzzy math? > > > > More like taking a word problem and "best-guessing" an answer. > > Equations are not the focus. Fuzzy math is supposed to teach children > > to "think differently" about math. To try creative problem solving, > > which on its face is a Good Thing(TM), but when it comes to something > > like math, where formulae *are* everything, creative problem solving > > does no good *without* a grounding in mathematical concepts, some of > > which must be learned by rote. Fuzzy math tries to teach math without > > the grounding. Kids are not getting the grounding. > > > > It's math as envisioned by the "everybody-gets-a-trophy" school of > > thought. > > > > > I ended up with a math major by the time my college days were > > done...and I'm > > > curious if I was engaged in "fuzzy math" at all..... > > > > -- > > will > > > > "If my life weren't funny, it would just be true; > > and that would just be unacceptable." > > - Carrie Fisher > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:256462 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
