The Problem with Math is English
There have been several separate occasions in my math classes this semester where a student has asked me a question about a vocabulary word and I simply just didn't know the answer. I took 3 years of Latin in high school and I was an English teacher at one point, so I generally can guess the meaning of a word from the root word. However, some words just have me stumped. My new ‘go to’ tool in class is dictionary.com. Let me give you a few examples of some words that I have looked up during class this semester. Linear Algebra In…