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Re: Pedagogy



"Carl E. Mungan" <mungan@usna.edu> writes:
I know I'm guilty of sometimes
saying "this is easy" - I don't mean to be condescending but I do
want to point out that it is, as is often the case, a familiar
problem "in disguise" (eg. just reduces to the familiar differential
equation (double dot)x = -x) and that, as is also often the case, it
is not as hard as it may initially look and in particular doesn't
require any "hard" math if you use this or that "trick or technique"

How about saying, "This is easier than it looks."

Marc "Zeke" Kossover
The Hockaday School