Re: Platonism

From: Lester Zick (lesterDELzick_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 03/09/05 

Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 14:46:57 GMT

On 8 Mar 2005 20:18:17 GMT, rusin@vesuvius.math.niu.edu (Dave Rusin)
in comp.ai.philosophy wrote:

>In article <gerry-F2D91D.09250008032005@sunb.ocs.mq.edu.au>,
>Gerry Myerson <gerry@maths.mq.edi.ai.i2u4email> wrote:
>
>>I guess by this definition all those grade school and high school
>>classes that everyone calls mathematics, aren't.
>
>I have been running a quiet campaign to change the phrase "Do the Math!" [*]
>to "Do the Arithmetic!". It's not so much that the students aren't
>doing math; what irks me is the implication that that's what the
>heart of math is.

Amen.

Regards - Lester

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