Re: [Phys-l] Old News That Stays News

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

"Would you want to go to a doctor who's learned about the concepts  
but never done the surgery? Would you want your doctor to say, 'I had  
the right idea when I removed your appendix, though I took out the  
wrong one?' "

Wrong appendix?



bc thinks H. s. sapiens are not ruminants.





On 2008, Jul 20, , at 10:03, John Denker wrote:

> Here's something you don't see every day:  An informative, non- 
> polemical,
> non-hysterical news article about new math ± old math.
>
>     http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/07/18/ 
> renegade.math.parents.ap/index.html
>
> >  Story Highlights
> >  # Parents sometimes struggle with kids' concept-based math curricula
> >  # Method teach the ideas behind mathematics, rather than rote  
> > procedures
> >  # Parents don't understand the new methods; can't help with homework
> >  # Rebel parents teach kids the old -fashioned math methods
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