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Message: [QUOTE="SVCBeercats, post: 2971930, member: 7874"] [B][COLOR=rgb(41, 105, 176)]"American kids are not taught HOW to think math."[/COLOR][/B] Once I and several other computer programmers and systems designers were discussing how we designed computer programs in our heads. As I was describing how I see types of code as different geometric forms, I suddenly realized from where my thinking originated. Mr. Meese! My geometry teacher in high school who would not allow us to workout solutions on paper. We had think through the problem and then and only then write the solution on the blackboard and explain it. I can still hear him urging me to visualize the process and the solutions. When I realized this I located his house and visited him. He was retired at the time. I thanked him for teaching me to think through geometry. Upon reflection I think his wife was happier with my visit. She seem so proud of him. He taught a lot of us to think (and quite a lot of geometry). He was teaching us to think period and not just think math. [B][COLOR=rgb(41, 105, 176)]Loh says it's important to teach math as more than mere memorization and formulas. [/COLOR][/B][COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)]I guess Mr. Meese knew this all those years ago.[/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)]The first time I walked into Oracle Corp.'s cafeteria; it was like walking into the United Nations cafeteria. Larry Ellison cared less about who or what you were as long as you could think very well. The software development staff was recruited from all of the finest computer science programs in the world. I was in sales. :oops:[/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)]I have always struggled trying to explain to Mrs. SVC and our artistic friends why a computer program like a mathematical proof can be as artistically beautiful as any work of art such as a painting or a sculpture. [/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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