Re: Choice of topics in math education

juuitchan_at_hotmail.com
Date: 06/08/04 

Date: 8 Jun 2004 16:43:40 -0700

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> > 2) Why don't students learn a day-of-week algorithm? This might actually be useful.
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> a) do you mean what day of the week will Jan 1, 2007 be? sure that'd be useful, but
> it's also be useful to have an algorithm to convert fahrenheit to celsius.

About the F/C thing: I've done this so many times, I have a mental
lookup table: 10 C = 50 F, 20 C = 68 F, etc. Way more useful than long
division or the high multiplication tables.

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