Testing random

[C.D. Reimer]

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.