In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jay Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Einstein was considered slow at math also, which leads me to suspect >that math education may have been (almost!) as poor then as now.
Einstein was not considered slow at math; this keeps coming up. Now he might have been slow at arithmetic, but this has essentially NOTHING to do with mathematical ability. Many excellent mathematicians are quite poor at arithmetic. Knowing how to do the manipulations adds little, if anything, with understanding what they mean; one cannot teach the latter to teachers. -- This address is for information only. I do not claim that these views are those of the Statistics Department or of Purdue University. Herman Rubin, Department of Statistics, Purdue University [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (765)494-6054 FAX: (765)494-0558 . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
