Python Learning
Bill
BILL_NOSPAM at Noway.net
Sun Dec 17 19:43:21 EST 2017
Gregory Ewing wrote:
> Bill wrote:
>> In my years of teaching experience, students who came to college
>> without the equivalent of "college algebra" were under-prepared for
>> what was expected of them.
>
> This could be simply because it weeds out people who aren't
> good at the required style of thinking.
I think that's absolutely true. If someone gets out of high school and
doesn't understand college algebra (~8th grade math), they come into a
programming class with an inherent disadvantage. They "can't understand"
the book, just like they "couldn't" understand their math book.
> If that's true,
> anything that exercises mathematical thinking should have
> the same effect. There just doesn't happen to be anything
> else in the mainstream education curriculum that does that.
>
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