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For everything it does well, the US model of math education conditions students to anticipate narrowly defined problems with narrowly prescribed solutions. This puts them in no place to anticipate the ambiguous, broadly defined, problems they'll need to solve after graduation, as citizens. This webcast will define two contributing factors to this intellectual impatience and then suggest a solution.

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James Ward surprised us today with a patch for Flex Builder 3 that makes it work with Eclipse Galileo SR1. James solved the dreaded "An internal build error has occurred" problem. His solution was to replace ProblemManager with his...

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More projects seem to be coming across my desk that ultimately involve building information systems whose primary requirements come from legislation or regulations. And sometimes even the detailed requirements. Legislation is sometimes quite a nice Requirement Specification: it is expressed...

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