Textbooks are usually written with motivation presumed. keywords: [education] [teaching] [training] [educators] [curriculum]
Day: August 8, 2020
OBSERVATION (belief)
Belief is vulnerable to time, but can span any amount of space. keywords: [life] [General Systems Theory]
OBSERVATION (swimming against the current)
Swimming against the current reaches its peak for anyone providing early instruction of youth. keywords: [Peter Stuyvesant] [education] [teaching] [training] [educators] [curriculum]
OBSERVATION (gluttony)
Gluttony deprives you of your ability to spring. keywords: [life] [poetic justice] [inertia]
OBSERVATION (close figuring)
Moving close figuring from foreground (‘real time’) to background (‘down time’ / ‘batch’) is called accounting, and its core is called algebra. keywords: [life] [General Systems Theory] [advancement of civilization] [precision] [accuracy]
OBSERVATION (insurance)
Presence is insurance. (Taking hostages is based on this fact.) keywords: [life] [General Systems Theory] [guarantee]
LOREM IPSUM (learning squares)
The purpose of learning squares is to be able to take square roots. keywords: [Mathematics] [Arithmetic] [Algebra] [empowerment] [enabling] [allowing]
OBSERVATION (dogs running loose)
Dogs running loose is just a special case of lack of infrastructure. keywords: [life] [General Systems Theory]
OBSERVATION (going forward)
Going forward has a quota of inverse activity. (This is the abstract version of the notion of bank shots and their necessity.) An important application of this principle is the teaching of the quadratic formula. The teaching of the quadratic formula should be preceded by extensive exercise in solving equations involving square roots (taking square … Continue reading OBSERVATION (going forward)
Theorem. If n is greater than 6, then C(n-1, n-4) is less than C(n, n-5), where C denotes the binomial coefficient.
keywords: [Mathematics] [Pascal’s triangle] [inequality]