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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What you are missing is that the approaches used in the example by physicists and mathematicians scale up to higher order, exceedingly more complex problems. You can talk and wander your way through an easy elementary school word problem but you can't do this for more advanced mathematics.

If you had been properly instructed at an earlier age, you would not have struggled so much in college level math classes. It is not the job of a university professor to re-teach you fifth grade math because you never developed a good working math memory, don't understand how to approach problems from an abstract or visual perspective, and can't solve more complex problems.

Its fundamentally unfair to not teach kids math under the guise of teaching an alternate more verbal way. It creates a situation where only kids with a very innate math aptitude or kids who receive outside instruction end up with the foundational skills to pursue a career requiring math. A fifth grade teacher can lead the rest of her life with only enough skills to get through fifth grade level problems. She can't assume that every kid in her class should lead a similar life. [/quote]

You sure know a lot about me -- or think you do.

How much personal experience do you have teaching math? At any level.[/quote]

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