17 Aug
2005
17 Aug
'05
11:57 p.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
students. Students who are SO beginning, that N = N +
1 is NOT obvious.
Many of them are actually otherwise intelligent, but they have not learned
how to think procedurally, and have been trained to think that '=' means
that two expressions are interchangable with each other.
Hang on a minute, does anyone *really* find the use of "=" as
assignation, and "=" as equivalence, in *any way* confusing?
I had managed to get my head round that when I was eight years old! You
can't seriously sit there and tell me that university students have
trouble grasping that...
Gordon.