The problem with the real-world examples, Dr. Kaminski said, was that they obscured the underlying math, and students were not able to transfer their knowledge to new problems.
Nick Baxter The unfortunate thing with this type of problem is that the interesting math gets obscured by the controversy of interpretation.
I said I always assumed the biology was solid, because the math was very obscure".
One reason the national Common Core standards focus on English / Language Arts and math skills and obscure measurements such as text complexity is that when you look at what content should be taught you have very sharp disagreement.
Math jokes, or obscure topics (binary code, Latin, etc).
Marriette, the maid, who was his first sexual encounter, is characterized only as having "such a firm, round, lively and truly impressive behind that the haunting vision of this interesting aspect of her personality frequently obscured the face of my math teacher at school".
That formalism serves the dual purpose of endowing it with intellectual weight in an era where numbers and math are prized, and of obscuring a quite crude social philosophy.
"The problem with a major is that you could find a math major who spent all his time in an obscure area of topology and did not know much at all about algebra, geometry or trigonometry".
When many of his students here told him they hated math, he said: "Inevitably they had a fourth- or fifth-grade teacher who told them, 'Math isn't about why; it just is.' They see math as an obscure religion.
WILLY (wildly): Math, math, math!
