To: no gnu taxes
The real issue may not have anything to do with basic math - for those things, a calculator is a fine tool. What people need to know is how to approach problems quantitatively - you know, the dreaded story problem - from an educational perspective, how you derive values is perhaps more important than the values themselves. I have an advanced degree in a physical science, the math is the easy part - it's learning how to approach problems that is hard. Final recommendation: there is no branch of mathematics more misunderstood and invaluable than statistics. It should be a required course for graduation from High School and every college student should have to take at least one basic and one advanced statistic course.
32 posted on
12/18/2011 10:32:41 AM PST by
stormer
To: stormer
...there is no branch of mathematics more misunderstood and invaluable than statistics. It should be a required course...I could not agree more! Witness people bemoaning the fact that half the population is below average!
59 posted on
12/18/2011 11:24:54 AM PST by
sima_yi
( Reporting live from the People's Republic of Boulder)
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