Not Waiting For The Asteroid

Not counterchecked eh? That kid has a great future with some NGO,working to implement the Useless Nations Agenda 21 through what ever scam they come up with next. His socialist "teachers" must be so proud.

The Media most likely thought this was confirmation of Anthropogenic Global Warming, or Climate Change, or WHATEVER they are calling it this week. That is, after all, how carefully they vet THOSE articles...

In my best Maxwell Smart voice
Would you believed he solved a problem in fundamental particle dynamics posed by Sir Isaac Newton over 350 years ago

No?

OK Would you believe he has slashed the Gordian Knot

No?

OK would you believe he completed a paint by numbers mural

No?

"He then validated his results numerically."

You keep using that word, I don't think validate means what you think it means.

"In the context of Shouryya Ray's work it was an unfortunate circumstance, that a recent article from 2007 [*] claims that no analytic solution of problem (1) was known, or that it was known only in special cases, namely for falling objects [*] . This might have misslead Shouryya Ray."

From now on Ray will be counterchecking what he reads.

Future lead author of an OPCC report!

My major bitch about the way math/arithmetic is/was taught was that there was no connection to the real world...I could never understand to what end I was (supposed to be) learning it. How difficult is it to expose kids to real life applications.
-Mixing pesticide solutions
-calculating volume of lumber from a log
-calculating roof rafter lengths and compound cuts
-volume of water required to operate a turbine
-voltage/resistance/amperage calculations for electrical installations
etc.
If I had realized how pervasive math was, I'd have actually paid attention!

Did I not call it?

All caused by co2.

Well, it's apparent from the article that Shouryya Ray is a brilliant student, who independently derived a solution for a problem in classical mechanics. Not a unique solution, nor was it an unsolved problem. It's not really clear if Ray was the one who made the false claims, but it certainly was the media that hyped them.

I am not sure what this is all about and have no wish to investigate but the field of ballistics has been exceedingly well researched for over 100 years. Back in the day, you couldn't purchase a commission in the artillery because you had to have the ability to do calculations. Being a rich man's son wasn't enough.

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Unfortunately Kate, it seems even you fell (albeit with some suspicion) for this one!

DaninVan writes: "How difficult is it to expose kids to real life applications."

It isn't. But, as you see in the comments whenever this topic comes up, such practical problems are a waste of time, which should be devoted exclusively to the memorization of formulae and algorithms.

Memorization is a valuable part of learning, but it can be a rewarding or counterproductive experience. Most kids are quite adept at memorization when they see its practical value, when they can connect it to what they already know (or think they know). Good teachers can help students make those linkages; Mr Gradgrind couldn't do it, wouldn't do it, and couldn't understand why anyone would.

The answer is... eleventy-seventeen.

The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything (H2G2 1981)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQWdMftKT3Q

My major bitch about the way math/arithmetic is/was taught was that there was no connection to the real world...

Probably because most teachers and 'academics' don't live in the real world. Even their wages mostly consist of a forced removal of the fruits of someone else's labour.