On 6/7/2015 10:20 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
A fourth possibility is that mathematics works differently for him and for us, which I suppose is possible; when I visited sci.math a while ago, I found some people for whom everything I'd learned in grade school was clearly wrong, and they were doing their best to enlighten the world about the new truths of mathematics that they'd found.
I had the unfortunate luck of taking "Harvard Calculus" in college (circa 1995). The textbook was nothing but word problems from end to end. The goal was to get the students away from symbolic thinking of traditional calculus into thinking about real world problems that uses calculus. (Never mind that the majority of students don't use calculus after they get out school.) I bailed out after two weeks. Taking the class at 7:30AM probably didn't help.
Chris R. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
