Hi Jerry,
Is that a solution....?
Mullah Nasruddin was visiting a restaurant with a famous scholar. The scholar offered to buy lunch.
They chose fish, and, when served, one plate had a larger fish. The Mullah immediately chose the larger.
The scholar complained this wasn't polite.
The Mullah asked what the scholar would have done.
The scholar said 'I would have chosen the smaller'
The Mullah said, 'And so...'
Cheers,
Terry
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We solved it another way. You cut, I choose.
Jerry
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> On Oct 13, 2015, at 4:23 PM, Keith Russell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Dear Eduardo,
>
> Many children see the problem in division that your daughter pointed to.
> Plato had to bother to argue, for example, that while one plus one
> might be seen by some people to equal two (1+1 = 2) for many ancient
> Greek thinkers there was a problem. Each ONE is a one such that it is
> a one so how can it become part of another thing called a TWO and still be a one?
> Plato¹s answer was the hypothesis: let¹s agree that 1+1=2 works in the
> land of abstractions called maths (knowledge of things) and see where
> that gets us.
>
> Our groups has wrestled with this issue many times. Indeed, it was a
> foundational issue for those who have been here the whole time.
>
> To skip a few stages (redundancy and explicitness), I suggest a table
> of
> utilities:
>
> Images are good/bad for.
> Words are good/bad for.
>
> In terms of the cake problem of division, one of my older brothers
> solved this. He would cut out a small slice from the cake (which he¹d
> leave for six other people) and take the rest for himself. No more
> division problems for him.
>
> Cheers with my tiny bit of cake
>
> keith
>
>
>
> On 14/10/2015 3:56 am, "PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of
> PhD studies and related research in Design on behalf of Eduardo corte-real"
> <[log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> As to the unambiguity of Maths, you never met my daughter Rita. When
>> she was 6 she complaint that nobody told her that wen you were
>> dividing things you were dividing things in equal parts. Why is it
>> that 12/2 = 6 if nobody told that 2 was meaning two equal parts?
>
>
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