D. E. Smith's Quotes
David Eugene Smith was a well-known author, math historian and educator and a past president of the Mathematical Association of America. His 1913 address to the New England Association of Teachers of...
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The Dean wondered why he had promised the professor of mathematics to do all he could for this boy. Merely because the professor had said: "This," and pointed to Roark's project, "is a great man." A...
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Be as it may, I find it significant that the two math professors chose a venue other than employing Algebra as a tool for improving their readers' thinking. Had the book been written around an algebra...
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TweetPaul Meehl's (1954) book Clinical Versus Statistical Prediction: A Theoretical Analysis and a Review of the Evidence appeared 25 years ago. It reviewed studies indicating that the prediction of...
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