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micromath.wordpress.com
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| | | | | Continuing the theme of alternative approaches to teaching calculus, I take the liberty of posting a letter sent by Donald Knuth to to the Notices of the American Mathematical Society in March, 1998 (TeX file). Professor Anthony W. Knapp P O Box 333 East Setauket, NY 11733 Dear editor, I am pleased to see so... | |
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| | | | | The most common question students have about mathematics is "when will I ever use this?" Many math teachers would probably struggle to give a coherent answer, beyond being very good at following precise directions. They will say "critical thinking" but not much else concrete. Meanwhile, the same teachers must, with a straight face, tell their... | |
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| | | | | Lâu ngày không vào, nh?ng ?êm nay ghé th?m l?i trang nhà c?a "c? nhân", th?y bài này có v? hay nên "c?p" l?i ?ây ?? "ngâm c?u" th? xem :). Nói ??n c? nhân làm tôi nh? l?i nhi?u k? niêm v? "h?n". ?ã lâu r?i không còn "dám" liên l?c v?i "h?n", vì... | |
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| | | Today, a friend asked me for help figuring out how to calculate the standard deviation over a discrete probability distribution. I pulled up my notes from college and was able to correctly calculate the standard deviation they had been unable to derive after hours upon hours of searching the internet and trying to piece together poor explanations from questionable sources. The crux of the problem was, as I had suspected, the astonishingly bad notation involved with this particular calculation. | ||