Timeline for What should we teach to liberal arts students who will take only one math course?
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| Dec 20, 2010 at 17:20 | comment | added | Anna Varvak | From personal experience, I recommend not trying to combine both courses together. Both need to build up momentum, and it's different if I am trying to encourage the practice of numeracy as opposed to the sense of wonder and excitement about mathematical discovery. | |
| Jun 22, 2010 at 20:14 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by S. Carnahan♦ | ||
| Jun 20, 2010 at 23:20 | vote | accept | Michael Hardy | ||
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| Jun 19, 2010 at 16:23 | comment | added | Henry Segerman | Perhaps there is a third possible course. Great works in the humanities are valued in part because they expose students to different states of human experience/ways of thinking about the world. Mathematics is one of only a few disciplines that can expose students to thinking about the world in a mathematical way (other disciplines might include physics, computer science, linguistics). We would like to give students a sense of this other way of thinking. To do this, we should use appealing, self contained subjects (e.g. knot theory) that they can and will want to think about. | |
| Jun 19, 2010 at 2:36 | vote | accept | Michael Hardy | ||
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| Jun 19, 2010 at 2:14 | history | answered | danseetea | CC BY-SA 2.5 |