a) Answer true or false to the following statement and then explain. If someone gets the correct, numerical answer to a problem, then the person understands all the mathematics. Do you agree or disagree with the statement. Explain why?
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I'm assuming you meant "all the maths" relevant to the question. The statement is false - it could be a lucky guess; it's also possible that the person did not understand all the Maths involved, but made several errors and got the correct answer by pure luck - an example of this would be 2^2 - a great number of pupils will treat it as 2x2 (correct), but will also treat 3^2 as 3x2 (wrong) since they do not understand powers of a number.
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False.
If you get the correct numerical answer to a problem by asking a question on Yahoo!Answers, it's because you have no clue about understanding the mathematics. Otherwise you wouldn't have posted the question on Yahoo!Answers.
(and my dad was using "new math" before it *was* new math -- he could answer a question correctly, knew it was correct, but was unable to explain why it was correct.)
If you get the correct numerical answer to a problem by asking a question on Yahoo!Answers, it's because you have no clue about understanding the mathematics. Otherwise you wouldn't have posted the question on Yahoo!Answers.
(and my dad was using "new math" before it *was* new math -- he could answer a question correctly, knew it was correct, but was unable to explain why it was correct.)
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False. That one particular problem would not have covered every single section of mathematics. It's not representative of all mathematics.