Re: A matter of nomenclature

In article <h0tnk1deho2a8goa4ltcog6o3bmdetb2hj@xxxxxxx>,
Quentin Grady <quentin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> ....
> Some of my students are slightly dyslexic according to the specialists
> who have tested them. I'm not so sure. What does seem certain is
> that nailing down the numerator as always being the same seems to
> stablise them....


That's interesting. From time to time I've had a dyslexic student
in a university mathematics class. Each of them had a lot of difficulty
with written English words, but no trouble at all with written
mathematical formulae. (Of course any dyslexics who couldn't handle
those wouldn't land up in my classes in the first place.)

Perhaps the reason may be that the conventions for writing
formulae are so much more systematic than English spelling. I wonder
how dyslexics get on with written music, which also is quite systematic.

Ken Pledger.
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