Although we may want to pursue the wonder of the world and open the beauty of creation with mathematics, we often find ourselves in the weeds. We teach our children to identify numbers, patterns, and symbols. We teach them to compute sums and products as though the calculator didn’t exist. In short, we teach arithmetic.
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According to Thomas Aquinas, natural theology is mediate knowledge because it comes to us through the medium of God’s creation. Natural theology is the study of the creator through his creation. This very idea has me oscillating between excitement to study more nature and frustration in the obvious loss of translation. In college one of
Proof by contradiction is a logical mind skill used to reduce a premise or assumption to the absurd, or impossible contradiction. This logical mind game is mastered in logic, but brushed up against in geometry. We play a tug of war game with logic in Geometry. We acknowledge the existence of logic just enough to
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Few modern people can get away with a single name. A few may come to mind, but ancient history are full of those one named wonders. Euclid is one of the most recognizable names in history, and all he did was write a single book. It may have had 13 volumes, but it was a
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Euclidian geometry conjures up images of shapes with all of their angles, lines, tick marks, and sides. The most picturesque branch of high school mathematics is geometry. Geometry after all is the science or art of measuring the earth. It started with the images of the created world around us and is often learned using
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