"First, there should be calculations specially devised as suitable for boys,
which they should learn with amusement and pleasure, ... for, as i said, by
connecting with games the essential operations of practical arithmetic, you
supply the boy with what will be useful to him later in the ordering of
armies, marches and campaigns, as well as in household management; and in
any case you make him more useful to himself and more wide awake. Then
again, by calculating measurements of things which have length, breadth, and
depth, questions on all of which the natural condition of all men is one of
ridiculous and disgraceful ignorance, they are enabled to emerge from this
state."
--Plato, Laws, 819 A-C
Chuck Lindsey, Ph.D. clindsey@fgcu.edu
Director of General Education
Associate Professor and Program Leader, Mathematics
Florida Gulf Coast University
10501 FGCU Blvd South
Fort Myers, FL 33965-6565
Phone: (941) 590-7168 FAX: (941) 590-7200
http://itech.fgcu.edu/faculty/clindsey
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CoolMath2@AOL.COM [SMTP:CoolMath2@AOL.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 2:21 PM
> To: davidjmclaren@classicfm.net; mathedcc@archives.math.utk.edu
> Subject: Re: [MATHEDCC] Signed numbers - frivolity?
>
> In a message dated 11/9/99 2:16:51 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> davidjmclaren@classicfm.net writes:
>
> << The friend of a friend is a friend.
> The friend of an enemy is an enemy.
> The enemy of a friend is an enemy.
> The enemy of an enemy is a friend. >>
>
> Hey, that's great, David!
>
> Karen
> Coolmath.com
> Orange Coast College
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