{"id":34,"date":"2009-12-08T14:16:41","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T08:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ckraju.net\/blog\/?p=34"},"modified":"2009-12-08T14:16:41","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T08:46:41","slug":"the-5-day-course-on-calculus-without-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"The 5-day course on calculus without limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most people dread or dislike learning mathematics. What a\u00a0pity for a subject which means by derivation the &#8220;science of learning&#8221;! On my theory, math became difficult, when it\u00a0got entangled with the\u00a0post-Crusade Christian theology of reason,\u00a0used as a weapon against Islam.<\/p>\n<p>The way to make\u00a0math easy, therefore, is to disentangle it from theology.<\/p>\n<p>This makes math so easy, that a whole course calculus could be taught in 5 days, as I showed in this remarkable experiment at Sarnath.\u00a0 Here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/ckraju.net\/papers\/Calculus-without-limits-presentation.pdf\">presentation<\/a> (made in Oct at Homi Bhabha Centre\u00a0for Science Education, Mumbai) and a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ckraju.net\/papers\/calculus-without-limits-background-paper.pdf\">paper<\/a> for a meeting on science education in JNU 12-13 Dec 2009.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ckraju.net\/gif\/Sarnath-workshop-photo.gif\" alt=\"Group photo of Sarnath workshop\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people dread or dislike learning mathematics. What a\u00a0pity for a subject which means by derivation the &#8220;science of learning&#8221;! On my theory, math became difficult, when it\u00a0got entangled with the\u00a0post-Crusade Christian theology of reason,\u00a0used as a weapon against Islam. The way to make\u00a0math easy, therefore, is to disentangle it from theology. This makes math so easy, that a whole course calculus could be taught in 5 days, as I showed in this remarkable experiment at Sarnath.\u00a0 Here is a presentation (made in Oct at Homi Bhabha Centre\u00a0for Science Education, Mumbai) and a\u00a0paper for a meeting on science education in JNU 12-13 Dec 2009. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-history-and-philosophy-of-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}