Wait, he says. Double or nothing i can tell you exactly what your profession is. The mathematician things this is unlikely, so says, sure, go ahead. The shepherd says, you are a world famous mathematicianings incredible, says the math ma tickings how could cue know . Well, says the shepherd, put down my dog and ill tell you. This reputation is not new. In 1914, william d. Lewis, the principle of william penn N High School in philadelphia rote about democratizing education and focused oN High School math mat makes. Misobjection he wrote is largely empire cal. I have seen so many pupils driven out of school by work which could not have any practical advantage to them, and i have watched so many classes, under the caption of algebra, i have come to believe we ought to discriminate as carefully as possible between those pupils who really need the advance mathematics and those who will find other work more profitable. 1914. What mathematics we teach in our schools, especially our high schoo
Myself, a young kid in the suburbs, going down south to mississippi every summer. That was my childhood experience. Host who happened to be africanamerican guest exactly. And i never saw that. So then i started writing because i was forced to take a graduate class in writing as part of my requirements. And my first writing teacher said you need to be a writer. Forget the scholar. [laughter] you need to be writing, its for important. And she turned me into a writer. She forced know keep writing over and over again. Because then i moved to new york pause thats what youre told to do, and i got another degree. Fine arts in writing for children at the new school. And really tried to learn the business and realized, oh, theres a lot of [inaudible] and theres a lot of rewriting x theres a lot of, you know, trying to figure out that this game is based on relationships too and how youre perceived. So then i really started writing a lot and launched a packaging company, because i realized that i
Good evening. Welcome to the National Museum of mathematics and a very special event. I think we are all delighted the museum is putting on this event tonight and even more delighted they are doing it with the support of the Mathematical Association of america helping out tonight. In particular, loaned us james tanton who i will introduce in a minute. My name is john ewing, i am president of math america. I am a mathematician. [applause] this was not meant to be an aa meeting by the way. Every professional mathematician those mathematicians and their subjects have a certain reputation. A worldfamous mathematician walking in the countryside one day comes upon a huge flock of sheep. Being a worldfamous mathematician goes up to the shepherd and makes a proposition. 100 against one of your sheep and i could tell you instantly how many sheep are in the flock. The shepherd, knowing there are an awful lot of sheep says okay, i will try it. The mathematician looks around and says there are 937
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