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To: epicure who wrote (246248)	3/3/2014 11:54:14 AM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542904

Merkel says Putin is out of touch with reality. He has nukes and a large army, so he is dangerous. He may invade the Ukraine, what then? Putin just gave the Ukrainian's in Crimea until 5 tomorrow to lay down their weapons. I also don't like clowns like Mccain and Lindsey Graham and many pundits deriding Obama for being soft. LIke this was his fault which is nuts. It is outrageous they would play politics at a time like this. It will be a great day when Maccain leaves politics. He is as crazy as Putin. Obama is not being soft, he is being thoughtful. Putin seems to want to engage in as much war as he can. That is dangerous. We need to stick with Europe and the G8.

To: epicure who wrote (246248)	3/3/2014 1:23:19 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 542904

Think Math Is Boring? Blame Our 1K-Year-Old Curriculum MATHEMATICIAN EDWARD FRENKEL THINKS THERE IS A BETTER WAY By Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff newser.com Posted Mar 3, 2014 10:12 AM CST (NEWSER) – "Our current math curriculum is more than 1,000 years old," declares mathematician Edward Frenkel in the Los Angeles Times, and it's time to change things up so that kids stop asking, "Why study math?" Yes, we still need to teach those centuries-old equations, but it's important that we also show children "math's great masterpieces"—some of them very recent. By ignoring modern math ideas, we're robbing students of the chance to see math as fascinating, and instead adding more fuel to "the common perception of the subject as stale and boring." We need to show students that math is about things like "clock arithmetic—in which adding four hours to 10am does not get you to 14 but to 2pm—which forms the basis of modern cryptography, protects our privacy in the digital world and, as we've learned, can be easily abused by the powers that be," Frenkel writes. They should learn about abstraction, which "is all around us"—it's what enabled us to move from bartering to gold coins, then to paper money and plastic credit cards, and now to digital currency. Kids are ready for this—Frenkel saw their eyes light up and their hands shoot into the air eagerly when he used a Rubik's Cube to explain symmetry groups—it's the adults who need to get on board. Click for his full column.