Re: Girls more confident of success

At 02:14 AM 9/21/03 -0400, Kevin Tarr wrote: We are getting Object Oriented COBOL soon. Isn't that sort of an oxymoron, like attaching a jet engine to a covered wagon? -- Ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Girls more confident of success

I don't want this to be self serving as it may read. It's just I will always wonder what happened to me. I know when I was young, I never learned to tie my shoes until late, I'd guess at least seven or eight. In third grade we had modules that we did individually but it was secret in a way. You

Re: W's_sneak_vote_on_Vouchers_during_presidential_debate_passes_by_1_vote_ while_3_democrat_opponents_were_at_debate

At 02:01 AM 9/21/03 -0400, Kevin Tarr wrote: At 12:36 AM 9/21/2003 -0400, you wrote: > a question which arises > after reading the article is why there are apparently not any private > schools available which emphasize that their academic standards are > superior to those of the "failing public sch

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At 12:36 AM 9/21/2003 -0400, you wrote: > a question which arises > after reading the article is why there are apparently not any private > schools available which emphasize that their academic standards are > superior to those of the "failing public schools" but which are not > associated with any

Re: Equal rights opportunity or numbers?

At 01:31 AM 9/21/03 +, Alberto Monteiro wrote: Ronn!Blankenship did not write: > > Do you want people with I.Q.'s under 80 to have "equal rights" > to be Mathmaticians? > eu qero ser profesora de matematica. ana silvia. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mai

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> a question which arises > after reading the article is why there are apparently not any private > schools available which emphasize that their academic standards are > superior to those of the "failing public schools" but which are not > associated with any religious organization?  Are there inde

Re: Derivation vs. Memorization

Ronn!Blankenship wrote: > >> Who somehow did memorize the quadratic formula... > > Can you derive it? > Trivial. I ddn't memorize Cardano's formula, but I can derive it easily: eliminate term in x^2, x = u + v then eliminate term with uv. OTOH, I have a hard time remembering some obscure geometry

Re: Equal rights opertunity or numbers?

Ronn!Blankenship wrote: > > Do you want people with I.Q.'s under 80 to have "equal rights" > to be Mathmaticians? > eu qero ser profesora de matematica. ana silvia. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Derivation vs. Memorization, was Re: Girls more confidentof success

"Ronn!Blankenship" wrote: > > At 07:49 PM 9/20/03 -0400, David Hobby wrote: > > > ---David > > > >Who somehow did memorize the quadratic formula... > > Can you derive it? Probably more easily than the heat equation. :) Julia

Re: Girls more confident of success

Bryon Daly wrote: > > >From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >I can memorize equations more easily than that, and can apply them > >properly. But I ran into a problem in high school, taking physics. The > >physics teacher we had wasn't qualified to teach physics (in fact, > >*nobody* in

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"Ronn!Blankenship" wrote: > > Although I realize it's not the point the author of the article was trying > to make, nor the reason it was posted to the list, a question which arises > after reading the article is why there are apparently not any private > schools available which emphasize that the

Re: Derivation vs. Memorization, was Re: Girls more confidentof success

"Ronn!Blankenship" wrote: > > At 07:49 PM 9/20/03 -0400, David Hobby wrote: > > > ---David > > > >Who somehow did memorize the quadratic formula... > > Can you derive it? > > -- Ronn! :) Certainly. Just complete the square.

Re: Girls more confident of success

From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I can memorize equations more easily than that, and can apply them properly. But I ran into a problem in high school, taking physics. The physics teacher we had wasn't qualified to teach physics (in fact, *nobody* in the science department was, pathetical

Re: Derivation vs. Memorization, was Re: Girls more confident of success

At 07:49 PM 9/20/03 -0400, David Hobby wrote: ---David Who somehow did memorize the quadratic formula... Can you derive it? -- Ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

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Although I realize it's not the point the author of the article was trying to make, nor the reason it was posted to the list, a question which arises after reading the article is why there are apparently not any private schools available which emphasize that their academic standards are superio

Derivation vs. Memorization, was Re: Girls more confident of success

Julia Thompson wrote: > > Jan Coffey wrote: > > > > --- Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > But you have to memorize math too - you don't just figure things out > > > every time you do a problem do you? > > > > Actualy yes, I do. > > OK, 2-part question: > > 1) Did you take Diff

Re: Girls more confident of success

Jan Coffey wrote: --- Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jan Coffey wrote: I never memorized anything by rote and I always did lousy in school but has always been very good at taking standardized tests. Why? The questions can be analyzed and wrong answers eliminated logically.

Re: Equal rights opportunity or numbers?

At 02:19 PM 9/20/03 -0700, Jan Coffey wrote: --- Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >We are all threatened when "equal rights" become "equal numbers". Should > >Dyslexics have "equal rights" to become english teachers? Do you want > people > >with I.Q.'s under 80 to have "equal rights"

Re: Girls more confident of success

Jan Coffey wrote: > > --- Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > But you have to memorize math too - you don't just figure things out > > every time you do a problem do you? > > Actualy yes, I do. OK, 2-part question: 1) Did you take Differential Equations? 2) If so, derive the Hea

Re: Girls more confident of success

--- Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Jan Coffey wrote: > > > > > > >>I never memorized anything by rote and I always did lousy in school but > >>has always been very good at taking standardized tests. Why? The > >>questions can be analyzed and wrong answers eliminated logi

Equal rights opertunity or numbers?

--- Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >We are all threatened when "equal rights" become "equal numbers". Should > >Dyslexics have "equal rights" to become english teachers? Do you want > people > >with I.Q.'s under 80 to have "equal rights" to be Mathmaticians? The blind > to > >be fig

Re: Girls more confident of success

Jan Coffey wrote: I never memorized anything by rote and I always did lousy in school but has always been very good at taking standardized tests. Why? The questions can be analyzed and wrong answers eliminated logically. You have to have a lot memorized (even if it is not -as I said

Re: Killing Them Softly

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Re: [L3]Re: Girls more confident of success...in an emphatically focused world

At 03:37 AM 9/20/03 -0700, Jan Coffey wrote: --- Deborah Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I also don't think that "progress" is only > > measured by > > > technology and business -- particularly I don't > > think > > > that most corporations have a shining "vision of > > the future"- ot

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Re: [L3]Re: Girls more confident of success...in an empathicaly focused world

--- Deborah Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I also don't think that "progress" is only > > measured by > > > technology and business -- particularly I don't > > think > > > that most corporations have a shining "vision of > > the future"- other than their own profits (of course > > th

Re: memorization vs. idea space position

--- Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin Tarr wrote: > > > > > > > > > > >That's a good question. As Doug has pointed out, language is a system. > I > > >like to think of the metaphor of idea space where the words both defines > > >the space and is embedded in the space. If one in

Re: [L3]Re: Girls more confident of success...in an emphatically focused world

At 11:58 PM 9/19/03 -0700, Deborah Harrell wrote: Addendum: I left out the filtration and calibration steps required in the 'high-tech' approach to bacterial quantification, and I forget the name of the machine used to measure light absorption and emission at various wavelengths...bu' ith on th' ti

Re: [L3]Re: Girls more confident of success...in an empathicaly focused world

At 11:38 PM 9/19/03 -0700, Deborah Harrell wrote: I'm not tracking here, Jan; failing to account for one set of calculations done in kilometers and one in miles (or feet) If you are thinking of the loss of the Mars Polar Lander, I believe it was actually confusion over whether the thrust of th