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Math education and teaching navigation
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2013 Jun 18, 22:52 -0700
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2013 Jun 18, 22:52 -0700
Read this (and some of the comments):
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/the-faulty-logic-of-the-math-wars/
So how much does a "modern" student of navigation depend on arithmetic algorithms? Can you work out a value for the sine of one minute of arc in your head? Should every child learn long division? Or logarithms?
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