On 10/4/2014 1:02 AM, drnanjo wrote:
Math is beautiful. When we suggest to students that it's an
obstacle to be skirted and not a skill set to be valued and
cultivated, we do them an injustice. It's part of being a good
critical thinker and a competent consumer of information in general.
It teaches us to break complex problems into small steps, which
is generally the way these sorts of problems are solved in many
realms.
Done with my speechifying. Have a good weekend all.
Nancy Melucci
Long Beach City College and elsewhere
I agree with Nancy.
One thing I see in psychology classes is the general look of
horror when I write an equation on the board. I take a portion
of my teaching mission to be to show that using mathematical
expressions is another way of thinking through problems.
My general phrase when working through some calculations is "Hey,
we're psychologists, and psychologists aren't afraid of fractions."
Ken
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Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. steel...@appstate.edu
Professor
Department of Psychology http://www.psych.appstate.edu
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
USA
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