How To Learn To Understand Mathematics?

How to Learn/What to Learn

Abst rac t : This paper discusses the kind of in fo rmat ion that must be present in a computer program that models the l i n g u i s t i c development of a c h i l d . A three stage model is presented that character izes the development of a na tu ra l l a n guage parser in a c h i l d of ages one, one and a h a l f , and two. Some data from ch i ld ren of these ages is presented. General prob...

Using Activity Theory to Understand How People Learn to Negotiate the Conditions of Work

Using Mathematics to Understand HIV Immune Dynamics

S ince the early 1980s there has been a tremendous effort made in the mathematical modeling of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus which causes AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome). The approaches in this endeavor have been twofold; they can be separated into the epidemiology of AIDS as a disease and the immunology of HIV as a pathogen (a foreign substance detrimental to the...

Learning how to learn

In proportion to our body mass, our brain is three times as large as that of our nearest relatives. This huge organ is dangerous and painful to give birth to, expensive to build and, in a resting human, uses about 20 percent of the body's energy even though it is just 2 percent of the body's weight. There must be some reason for this evolutionary expense [1]. Recently, I lost one of my aunts. S...

How to write mathematics

Mathematical prose relies heavily on symbols, but it is important not to use symbols to excess. Effective communication requires complete, grammatically correct sentences. Symbolism should never replace sentences. Mathematical symbols are used to represent complex formulae or longwinded phrases which appear repeatedly in the text. By introducing a new symbol, the author avoids constantly rewrit...