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- From: jk87377@lehtori.cc.tut.fi (Kouhia Juhana)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Undivided distaste for algebra: math's a waste
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 15:25:34 +0200
- Organization: Tampere University of Technology
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- In article <190744.12287mccarthy@washpost.com> mccarthy@washpost.com
- (Colman McCarthy) writes:
- >
- >America's 12.5 million high shool students
- [ ..deleted..]
- >cumpulsory algebra *and* geometry.
-
- Well, if the algebra and geometry is not compulsory in US high schools,
- what ever they learn there? Football? Soccer? (sp?)
-
- Even the algebra is useless later, it helps to wide the thinking
- capabilities -- ability to think mathematically helps even you never
- need it later.
-
- We call all this kind of things a common (general?) knowledge.
-
- The idea in learning uninteresting topics, is that you
- practise the learning process. Later it is easier to learn own
- career if you know how to learn even difficult topics.
-
-
- Juhana Kouhia
-