Vision in elementary mathematics
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Read on Hacker News…reen name "tokenadult": "The proper thing for a parent to say is, 'I did badly at mathematics, but I had a very bad teacher. I wish I had had a good one.'" W. W. Sawyer, Vision in Elementary Mathematics (1964), page 5. Yes, the book from which the quotation comes is very good, and very good for learners with a visual learning style.
Read on Hacker News…sing this screen name): "The proper thing for a parent to say is, 'I did badly at mathematics, but I had a very bad teacher. I wish I had had a good one.'" W. W. Sawyer, Vision in Elementary Mathematics (1964), page 5. By the way, the cited book is indeed very good for learning math.
Read on Hacker News…hool mathematics wrote, "The proper thing for a parent to say is, 'I did badly at mathematics, but I had a very bad teacher. I wish I had had a good one.'" W. W. Sawyer, Vision in Elementary Mathematics (1964), page 5. You can find a good teacher by finding good books about mathematics, even if you have never had a good teacher. Many working programmers haven't either, which is why some of them don't see the need for much math background to become a good programmer. You are young enough to learn a lot of math and to learn a lot of programming. Learning both hand-in-hand will make you a better programmer. One good book that combines both subjects is Approaching Precalculus Mathematics Discretely by Philip G. Lewis http://www.amazon.com/Approaching-Precalculus-Mathematics-Di... http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?tid=9168... wh…
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