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 11:41:24 -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:

> 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.
    Second time around -- I think my previous reply got
truncated
    Mike you are being so unfair to your Calculus teacher.
 "how" to do a math problem is very individualistic.  He
could explain "how" he does it but it might not be of any
use to you.  Some people think in pictures, some linearly,
and some with formulas. The method that serves you best
might be completely useless to the person sitting next to
you.
  Madeleine