While surfing...
 

I ran across this:

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/angelpin.htm

I'm sure others have seen it before, but it was fun to read, since I had
never read it before--excluding Donald's introductory comments.

Mark

"bearsbuddy" wrote in message
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I ran across this:

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/angelpin.htm

I'm sure others have seen it before, but it was fun to read, since I had
never read it before--excluding Donald's introductory comments.


Old story, credited to all sorts of now-famous academicians. However, I
wonder why the author chose to bash Mathematics teaching in his last
paragraph, since at no point was this story about a mathematics class or
exam.

--riverman
(math teacher)

"riverman" wrote in message
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"bearsbuddy" wrote in message
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I ran across this:

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/angelpin.htm

I'm sure others have seen it before, but it was fun to read, since I had
never read it before--excluding Donald's introductory comments.


Old story, credited to all sorts of now-famous academicians. However, I
wonder why the author chose to bash Mathematics teaching in his last
paragraph, since at no point was this story about a mathematics class or
exam.

--riverman
(math teacher)

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/skeptic.htm

Probably relating to the subject I was surfing-- Intelligent Design or
lack thereof? --

"bearsbuddy" wrote in message
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"riverman" wrote in message
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"bearsbuddy" wrote in message
...
I ran across this:

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/angelpin.htm

I'm sure others have seen it before, but it was fun to read, since I had
never read it before--excluding Donald's introductory comments.


Old story, credited to all sorts of now-famous academicians. However, I
wonder why the author chose to bash Mathematics teaching in his last
paragraph, since at no point was this story about a mathematics class or
exam.

--riverman
(math teacher)

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/skeptic.htm

Probably relating to the subject I was surfing-- Intelligent Design or
lack thereof? --



No, the point is that the anecdote accurately bashes how SCIENCE is taught,
and how the scientific method is pretty much lost in current science
teaching (except in my classes, of course g), but in his concluding
paragraph, he bashes how New Math is taught. Math is not the same subject as
science, and as far as I could tell from the story, the clever student
appropriately used math in all his solutions. A math teacher would have had
no problem whatsoever with any of his applications, rebellious or not.

--riverman

"riverman" wrote in message
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No, the point is that the anecdote accurately bashes how SCIENCE is
taught, and how the scientific method is pretty much lost in current
science teaching (except in my classes, of course g), but in his
concluding paragraph, he bashes how New Math is taught. Math is not the
same subject as science, and as far as I could tell from the story, the
clever student appropriately used math in all his solutions. A math
teacher would have had no problem whatsoever with any of his applications,
rebellious or not.

--riverman

Well, there you have it! I know very little math, and even less SCIENCE.

Mark