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To: macavity who wrote (44821)	1/16/2004 11:11:18 AM
From: maceng2	Respond to of 74559

Agreed, I liked this bit from Fern Hunt too.. "No matter how good you actually are," says NIST mathematician Fern Hunt, "there is definitely somebody who can run rings around you. . . . This and the fact that mathematics is a field a lot of people have trouble with causes a great deal of anxiety both within and outside the profession. I think we should minimize it by trying to look for the talent people have, rather than dismissing them for the talent they lack." cheers -g-

To: macavity who wrote (44821)	1/16/2004 7:58:48 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

<<I would like any children I have to be definitely mathematically competent>> Mac, my offspring has a math illiterate father and a math teacher with a Masters Degree in Geodesy. Her Kiwi math teacher tells offspring is back in math because she is not as fast enough doing calculation in her head but only in a piece of paper. For Kiwi teacher -actually a good teacher overall, being good at math is doing calulations "by the head" as we say in Portuguese. In your country of origin, in the city of Kaduna, my (only) past time was the British Council librabry, by the way one thing Commonwealth contries should be grateful to the British people. There I discovered that math that was forced on me, in the first year of high school stuff the British system only teach at post-graduate level!!!!! All due to the aping of the American school system post-Sputinik scare. (The Sputinik was like dropping the twin towers, mentally, and the Americans switch all their brains and reacted irrationally) Now if I can even being illiterate in math -to the despairs of the usual crowd here- discuss stuff they can't, and the market pays my price they find really tough to bear. I seat here and laugh. But it is like the late Ayrton Senna said: "There are the ones who have it. And there are the ones who don't. If you don't have. Don't even try it." I would have added: "and stop hating the ones who do"!!!! Oh, before I forget: the best math guy at the high school I dropped out went to make a living in a toilet paper factory in Brazil.