To: pepsionice
We are missing the real boat here....numbers matter, but you need to associate them with real things.Rocks, ruminants and roots are real things. So are rockets and radios. Algebra won't teach you the difference between the two sets, but then, without algebra there would not be two such sets.
91 posted on
07/29/2012 6:57:53 AM PDT by
Lady Lucky
(If you believe what you're saying, quit making taxable income.)
To: Lady Lucky
One of the great intellectual “breakthroughs” in human thinking was to separate “numbers” from “things”. The point being that numbers are more then just convenient scratches on writing media for counting. They have “meaning” and properties over and above keeping track of say “sheep”.
146 posted on
07/29/2012 7:37:10 AM PDT by
Reily
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