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Conservapedia talk:Critical Thinking in Math (view source)
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, 00:27, September 14, 2007Request status change to student.
: In further response, first in a general way, I do not subscribe to the view that more abstraction is better. Unfortunately, many of today's top college math progams graduate studens who haven't a clue about [[number theory]], unsolved problems, or issues in math that were controversial only a few decades ago. Proof by contradiction was disfavored, for obvious reasons, by many mathematicians as recently as 30 years ago. That you're completely unaware of it merely underscores the need for this course. It's healthy to step back and evaluate a field from a critical perspective. This is not by any means yield to popular opinion. Quite the contrary, it is to inject a degree of accountability . In Christ,--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 00:52, 9 September 2007 (EDT)
: In further response, first in a general way, I do not subscribe to the view that more abstraction is better. Unfortunately, many of today's top college math progams graduate studens who haven't a clue about [[number theory]], unsolved problems, or issues in math that were controversial only a few decades ago. Proof by contradiction was disfavored, for obvious reasons, by many mathematicians as recently as 30 years ago. That you're completely unaware of it merely underscores the need for this course. It's healthy to step back and evaluate a field from a critical perspective. This is not by any means yield to popular opinion. Quite the contrary, it is to inject a degree of accountability . In Christ,--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 00:52, 9 September 2007 (EDT)
::Well, I'm chagrined and disappointed by this, but I'm always willing to admit my ignorance and learn new things. So please change my status from instructor to student -- I'm still very much interested in this. Also, can you recommend any books that can fill me in on some of these issues? [[User:Robert|Robert]] 20:27, 13 September 2007 (EDT)