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The new approach may be okay so long as the book is accurate. All too often school boards default to a more error prone book, due to a connection to a specific
by lvecsey 19y ago
The new approach may be okay so long as the book is accurate. All too often school boards default to a more error prone book, due to a connection to a specific marketer.
Feynman on school books:
http://www.textbookleague.org/103feyn.htm http://www.textbookleague.org/103feyn.htm
- boredguy8 19y ago"Later on, when the children know something about how the toy actually works, they can discuss the more general principles of energy." So true, and this is why the parents are frustrated. It seems much learning is a process of successive approximations. Not only with adding -> algebra, but more advanced things, like algebra -> number theory or geometry -> calculus. You get to _doing_ some stuff because it _works_, then you realize (or rather, someone brilliant like Leibniz realizes) there's something the same in all of these cases,