Re: Re: More /.{I->-1} craziness. Schools are conservative.
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- Subject: [mg106734] Re: [mg106683] Re: More /.{I->-1} craziness. Schools are conservative.
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:37:50 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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"Too old to learn a new program": I don't think it's especially age-related. One of the early innovators at teaching math through Mathematica has said, "There are as many young fogies as old fogies." You allude to the pragmatic constraint, "Do I have time to rethink how I teach and what I teach, and to create or adopt new materials or learn how to teach in different ways." But perhaps more essentially there's the thinking, "That's the way I learned it, and I turned out OK, so that has to be the right way to teach it." On 1/21/2010 4:51 AM, Richard Fateman wrote: > David Park wrote: >> ... [A] and [B] look for flaws in Mathematica... >> but what about flaws in present practices? > > The problems of adoption of software as you advocate are NOT especially > dependent on the problems or flaws that we point out. Indeed, most > people who fail to adopt this software are not even aware of these > flaws, but simply say the programs are too expensive and would require > additional time to learn or teach, or would take extra time in courses > to teach, and would require extra people, and how about the cost of > computer labs, and anyway I'm too old to learn a new program, etc. -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305
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- Re: More /.{I->-1} craziness. Schools are conservative. So are [people]
- From: Richard Fateman <fateman@cs.berkeley.edu>
- Re: More /.{I->-1} craziness. Schools are conservative. So are [people]