Timeline for Not especially famous, long-open problems which anyone can understand
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| Nov 9, 2022 at 11:26 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
http -> https (the question was bumped anyway)
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| Mar 28, 2015 at 13:11 | history | edited | Igor Pak | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
reference to an article
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| Jan 6, 2014 at 19:28 | comment | added | Victor Protsak | Also, "half of the time" can be restated in probabilistic terms. In other words, instead of framing it as a real analysis question, appeal to probabilistic intuition. Alexander Woo's remarks about subtle possibilities notwithstanding, vastly larger numbers of students learn elementary probability and statistics than calculus. | |
| Sep 6, 2012 at 4:11 | comment | added | Alexander Woo | Yes, there is an option for seniors in a good high school to learn some calculus, but most calculus courses in the United States no longer give a rigourous definition of a limit. Without a rigourous definition, there are some subtle possibilities for what might go wrong that won't be appreciated. (Of course, very few students at that level have the mathematical maturity to understand a rigourous definition well enough to appreciate the subtle possibilities anyway, which is why the rigourous definition isn't taught anymore.) | |
| Jun 23, 2012 at 1:45 | history | edited | Vipul Naik | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
spelling correction for resp.
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| Jun 22, 2012 at 12:51 | comment | added | Francis Adams | Sequences are taught before real analysis, usually in Calc 2 along with infinite series. And the more basic material is suitable for high school, even a decent precalculus class. These are only sequences of reals so it isn't very general, and while they are taught, students might not really "understand" them until later. | |
| Jun 22, 2012 at 12:23 | history | edited | Joël | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 27 characters in body
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| Jun 22, 2012 at 12:21 | comment | added | Joël | Ah, that is bad. Isn't there an option for seniors in good high school to learn some calculus ? | |
| Jun 22, 2012 at 4:05 | comment | added | Alexander Woo | The notion of limit of a sequence is not usually taught in the US until a real analysis course, which is usually taken only by students in mathematics and frequently not until the third (or even last) year of university. (But I think this case is concrete enough that the necessary ideas here could be explained to a high school student.) | |
| Jun 22, 2012 at 0:46 | history | answered | Joël | CC BY-SA 3.0 |