Archive for September 2013
Why Jared and Brittany will never be good at math.2
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: September 19, 2013
Jared was pleased how easy algebra was. He thought it might be hard, but he was finding it much easier than he had imagined. “Hey, Brittany, look at this,” he said. “How simple is this?” Brittany looked at Jared’s work on the problem of calculating how far the point is from the origin of the […]
Why Jared and Brittany will never be good at math.1
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: September 15, 2013
Jared “simplified” in algebra class. His math teacher asked how he got that. “Easy!” said Jared. “Just cancel the x’s.” Jared was pretty sure he was becoming skilled at canceling. “But what if you put into ?” the teacher asked Jared. “The result would be 2, not 1.” Brittany jumped into the conversation: “You can’t do […]
