From: "Madeleine Yeh" <myeh at wap.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Great Con Redux...(DMZ Version)
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 11:25:07 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 01:38:59 -0400
  "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com> wrote:
> At 12:53 AM 10/18/2005 -0400, Ernest Lilley wrote:
>>I think this is a neat program idea, but it might be kind
>>of hard to
>>implement, and would have to be juggled against all the
>>other good ideas.
>
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>
> I've taken a few writing classes and I've seen the same
>thing I saw in
> Calculus class.  No real explanation of *how* to do it,
>just examples of it
> having been done, a command to go forth and do likewise,
>and evaluation of
> the results.  I decided that my Calculus teacher didn't
>*know* how do do
> Calculus...he just did it.
     There is no real use in teaching "how" to do it.
 This differs from person to person depending on their
experience and brain quirks Your calculus professor can
show "how" he does it, but there are many methods of doing
any particular math problems, one method might work best
for you, and another for the person sitting next to you.
Can you teach someone "how" to work a crossword puzzle?
 Some people think in pictures, some in formulas, some
intuitively.

        Madeleine