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Separating Maths From Fiction

I have to really agree with the sentiments expressed in this BBC Magazine article, The Sum of Human Emotions.

My problem was the exact opposite: I was being asked to solve question of the type: "When Fred is half as old as Emily was when Arthur was born, how many dogs does it take to change a light bulb in three days?" Write it as algebra, and I could solve it at the drop of a hat. But I was having real problems turning the social story into symbols.

One of the biggest problems that I had in Maths was actually pulling the problem out of questions of wells, jugs, curved bath surfaces and putting them into an equation that I could have a decent shot at solving.

One of the mysteries about my time at University was why Computer Studies required an intense level of Calculus. No matter that I passed the Computing module, and the Artificial Intelligence module, with no Calculus I wasn’t getting to progress.

It didn’t seem to count that i could program the computer to tell me the answer…

January 1, 2009; Daily Links, Personal Posts;

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