Tag Archives: Math
The Problem of Mathematics Education in India
This coming from someone who has had his entire education in India and loves the subject may sound a bit alarming. But this is how I find it. Please note that it is just a personal opinion formed based on the random incoherent surveys conducted over the years and discussions within close groups of friends, …
Mathematical vs. Verbal Reasoning
George Bernard Shaw (1856 — 1950) once said that as a boy he (1) let someone assume that , (2) permitted several steps of algebra, and (3) found that he had accepted a proof that . This incident had a deep impact on Shaw’s thought process and forever after, he distrusted assumptions and algebra. The …
‘New Math’ and other Mathematics Videos
‘New Math’ – Tom Lehrer ‘Lose Yourself in the Digits’ ‘‘ ‘What you know about math?’
