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Old 01-09-2007, 09:11 AM
kerry kerry is offline
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Originally Posted by MS Fowler View Post
I believe the reason for "math phobia" is that there is a greater risk of failure, and that failure can be measured.
We have raised a generation that have high self esteem but can't really produce.
That might explain the phobia issue but not the idiot savant phenomenon. I still think a Math Appreciation class or a Math History class is the best way to educate portions of the population without the same degree of hard wiring capacity as Mathematicians.
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