Colleen Ryan
--- "Lindsey, Dr. Charles" <clindsey@FGCU.EDU> wrote:
> One more thought (actually a quote) on the matter:
>
> "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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