I like the way Sowell did it (recounted in his A Personal Odyssey); when teaching economics to engineers he concentrated on a "literary" conceptual teaching sty

I like the way Sowell did it (recounted in his A Personal Odyssey); when teaching economics to engineers he concentrated on a "literary" conceptual teaching style, since he already knew they were competent in the needed math. Presumably, though he didn't discuss this directly, he used more math with those who needed it to understand the mathematical underpinnings of the theories. His idea was to present the coursework in a way that would make the students think about what they were doing. As he put it about the engineering students, if he presented it in the regular mathematical way, they could have just plugged the numbers into the formulas without necessarily understanding what he wanted them to learn.