Timeline for Motivating Algebra and Analysis for Average Undergraduates
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| Jan 30, 2012 at 11:40 | comment | added | Martin Argerami | I have found that future highschool math teachers hate this approach. They do not want to be challeneged nor they want to challenge the system. | |
| Dec 3, 2011 at 19:06 | comment | added | timur | @Alexander: You can tell them "This is kind of anarchist, but it is well established since over hundred years ago". | |
| Nov 14, 2011 at 20:44 | comment | added | Alexander Woo | @Daniel: Wheaton, Calvin, and Hillsdale are also a "small liberal arts colleges" | |
| Nov 2, 2011 at 16:50 | comment | added | Daniel Fleisher | Understood. I was thinking more of the stereotypical "student at a small liberal arts college". | |
| Nov 2, 2011 at 0:37 | comment | added | Alexander Woo | @Daniel: I am thinking of students who are conservative in the sense of Burke, meaning having significant respect for established traditions and rules. This is probably more prevalent among students from certain religious traditions as well as prospective high school teachers; it also probably varies geographically. ("God made the integers; all else is the work of man." -- Kronecker) I'm an anarchist like you :), but not everyone, not even every college student, is. | |
| Nov 1, 2011 at 19:05 | comment | added | Jon Bannon | Thanks for your answer, Daniel. Here's something I'd like to know: What is a nice problem that would force a student to discover the fundamental theorem of finite abelian groups? I remember this being a bit of a jump from playing around with cyclic groups, when I was an undergrad. | |
| Nov 1, 2011 at 19:03 | comment | added | Daniel Fleisher | Which populations are you referring to? Not saying I don't believe you, of course - just curious as to what you mean specifically. | |
| Nov 1, 2011 at 18:58 | comment | added | Alexander Woo | This works well with certain populations but would go down in flames with others. | |
| Nov 1, 2011 at 18:46 | history | answered | Daniel Fleisher | CC BY-SA 3.0 |