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  1. Feb 2017
    1. Therefore, it seems that the use of interactive LiveMath templates do help to enhance student learning, although more research needs to be done.

      Computer systems DO help!

    2. This interactive feature allows students to investigate many specic cases easily, instead of re-keying the algebra and re-plotting the graph for every case, which can be time-consuming.

      I think this would have really helped when I took my first algebra class. When I was twelve I was a very visual learner.

    3. But students generally have no need for a CAS just to carry out symbolic manipulations because most formal assessments require them to do these using paper and pencil.

      This is a great point; they will need to be able to do it on their own so programs like this won't do much.

    4. calculus concepts such as factorization and differentiation

      This is a lot like what our program does

    1. It is only because of this that the starved countries of Asia and Africa are accepted as tourist resorts. No one would think of running cheap trips to the Distressed Areas. But where the human beings have brown skins their poverty is simply not noticed. What does Morocco mean to a Frenchman? An orange-grove or a job in government service. Or to an Englishman? Camels, castles, palm-trees, Foreign Legionnaires, brass trays and bandits. One could probably live here for years without noticing that for nine-tenths of the people the reality of life is an endless, back-breaking struggle to wring a little food out of an eroded soil.

      This is the definition of privilege: being so oblivious to someone's life that their day-to-day struggle can be a vacation spot.

    2. In just the same way, a couple of hundred years ago, poor old women used to be burned for witchcraft when they could not even work enough magic to get themselves a square meal

      There is so much historical and present relevance here. This just continues to repeat. Our culture is constantly trying to blame it's problems on others.

    3. "Yes, MON VIEUX, they took my job away from me and gave it to a Jew. The Jews! They're the real rulers of this country, you know. They've got all the money. They control the banks, finance--everything."

      Sound familiar to recent political stances?

    4. with a sort of quiet amazement, as though he had never seen anything quite like this before.

      He's thinking, "Why would someone give his food to the animals? Does he not need it to survive?"

    5. No gravestone, no name, no identifying mark of any kind.

      This is the most striking difference to me. The western society is so individualistic; we care so much about personal acknowledgement.

    1. On the one hand, Trumpism is unspeakable. On the other hand the status quo is silence and death.

      I am very impressed by the way this is said. I never really understood how someone chose Trump. I totally get it now.

    2. (mandatory) $1k/month plan with a $5k deductible: they’ll still declare bankruptcy and lose the farm if they get sick, but in the meantime they pay a shit-ton to the shareholders of United Healthcare, or Aetna, or whoever.

      This is why I think we need universal health care. It seems to really be working elsewhere.

      https://mic.com/articles/46063/7-countries-that-show-us-how-health-care-should-be-done#.Eny0XRvx2

    3. scare, and not to inform people at risk? Why were AIDS information materials censored (or more properly defunded) if they did not simultaneously condemn homosexuality?

      This seems incredibly similar to the stigma about sex education and planned parenthood today. We aren't educating each other we're scaring each other.