Re: Choice of topics in math education

From: Gerry Myerson (gerry_at_maths.mq.edi.ai.i2u4email)
Date: 06/09/04 

Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 16:45:24 +1000

In article <f79f061c.0406080430.1bc50495@posting.google.com>,
 worldrecord@juno.com (David Ames) wrote:

> juuitchan@hotmail.com wrote in message
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> > 2) Why don't students learn a day-of-week algorithm? This might actually be
> > useful.
>
> This was published at least 60 years ago in Uspensky's book on theory
> of numbers. It is rather complex. Why would anyone bother to learn
> it?

(Heaslett and) Uspensky is not the last word on the topic.
John Conway came up with a nice metod that many people have learned.
He called it the Doomsday method, and you'll find many cites on the web. 

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