Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association
Volume 27 Issue 4, June 1989
11 – 12
Some More on the Formulation of Mathematical Problems
John G. Heuver
George A. Calder’s article, “Algebra Can Be a Language,” in the September 1988 issue of delta-K, has a number of errors in it. German and French words have been anglicized. However, the use of a dictionary is quite legitimate as a tool for teaching word problems since it quickly puts the task at hand into focus. Even the late Marc Kac (1959) used it.
