Steve Jobs Mending the Rift Between Science and Math

Mending the Rift Between Science and Math

Not sure if the Science community would agree but I believe Steve Jobs did a great deal to help improve the scientific and technology arena through keeping technology simple. Even during the time the rift happened between Apple and Steve Jobs, Steve was working to provide better technology.


I'm not going to tarnish the Steve Jobs name by giving any sort of credit to the possibility of some moron doing this fake steve jobs routine. I know probably since Steve Jobs death, how Steve Jobs family have had to cope with all sorts of problems and attention from media of all sorts without this latest spate.

As I sit here using my iPad and after watching a documentary about Steve Jobs, his work and his death, I not only wish I could have had the honor of meeting him, but that the world of science and math would take a leaf from his book of life, in particular, when he returned to Apple. The rift between science and math is seemingly rejuvenated with each new generation going through school. A journal entitled Mending the Rift Between Science and Math, has even been written. Though I have not read the article I do know it was written in 1974, and that the authors were calling upon a more Active approach to teaching math in American elementary schools.

Though I was still yet to start school at the time of its being written, I too have noticed this educational rift. With the advent of computers in schools for student usage and education the mending of the rift had a massive hand up given. Steve Jobs obviously found his own way to mending the rift between science and math even if only at a personal level.

Mathematics is actually a science and here in Australia some primary schools, our equivalent to elementary school, are fortunate enough to have teachers working hard at mending the rift between science and math by not only teaching the children math is one of the sciences, but by also using the very scientific technology Steve Jobs was part of making what it is today, to enable the children a more active approach in math.

I was in high school when computers were first used for learning purposes and back then it was mostly in math classes, learning programming and mathematical application. I therefore believe the mending of the rift between science and math really began when computer science was introduced through math classes.


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