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Dashboard Mathematics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

T. C. J. Elliott
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On the dashboard of a car we have a collection of direct-reading instruments, such as voltmeters, clocks, etc. The great simplification of practical physics which has been brought about by the ever-growing use of direct-reading instruments has unfortunately not been accompanied by an equal simplification of mathematical teaching. Schoolmasters ignore the dashboard, and base their teaching on Greek mathematics, for, though they profess to build on those foundations which are familiar to their pupils, they show a strange partiality for the familiar knowledge of two thousand years ago.

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Research Article
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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 16 , Issue 218 , May 1932 , pp. 116 - 119
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1932

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