International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education 2006, Volume 18, Number 3, 215-221 http://www.isetl.org/ijtlhe/ ISSN 1812-9129 Joy Murray University of Sydney
If you studied math, science, or engineering at a four-year college in the US, much of what you learned is useless, forgotten, or obsolete. All that money, all that time, all that wasted talent. If all we lost were a few years, no big deal. But the really
International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education 2006, Volume 18, Number 3, 215-221 http://www.isetl.org/ijtlhe/ ISSN 1812-9129 Joy Murray University of Sydney
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L. Lee. Approaches to algebra: perspectives for research and teaching, Kluwer Academic Publishers, p 102
… it is much of a challenge to demonstrate that functions, modelling, and problem solving are all types of generalizing activities, that algebra and indeed all of mathematics is about generalizing patterns.
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The history of the science of algebra is the story of the growth of a technique for representing of finite patterns.
The notion of the importance of pattern is as old as civilization. Every art is founded on the study of patterns.
Mathematics is the most powerful technique for the understanding of pattern, and for the analysis of the relationships of patterns.(1996)
W. Lee. ICML '01: Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Machine Learning, page 314--321. San Francisco, CA, USA, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., (2001)
W. Lee. ICML '01: Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Machine Learning, page 314--321. San Francisco, CA, USA, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., (2001)