I am an engineering student and with regards to english subject most of my classmates (say 8 out of 10) often find difficulties in dealing with paragraph composition, knowing the right tenses of verbs, grammar, etc. It is a problem which most of engiering students suffer or worst lead them of having no great interest in passing subjetcs such technical writing, project study and other related subjects that require composition. On the other hand, most of them say it is better to deal with mathematic since the patern is standard and all you need to know is how the operation works. However, most of mathematical problems especially word problems are written in english language,so how come they could still answer such mathematical problems if they find themselves poor in english? If one is good in math, he is not really that bad in english... however it is a scenario that students doing good in mathematics are performing hard in grammar, tenses, vocabularies, or even spellings. WHY?
2007-10-16 22:29:10 · 5 answers · asked by mike diez 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Teaching
If as a child one is permitted to focus on quantitative skills and allowed to let qualitative skills atrophy, the result will be difficulty with language skills, including reading comprehension, composition, grammar and spelling. The opposite is also true.
However, if one is encouraged or forced to develop both types of skillset, a more balanced intelligence will develop. The engineers who were permitted to skip development of qualitative skills can easily fix this problem by intensively working on their reading, writing, and grammatical skills. Language is based on math anyway, so it is not that difficult.
2007-10-17 00:51:13 · answer #1 · answered by nora22000 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yeah, my friends say that too. but I'm great in both math and english. Ever since I was a kid, I've enjoyed creating my own formulas and frustrating my teachers while arriving at the right answers. I love reading and writing books and enjoy debates. I guess it depends on how you look at things. Some people are just predisposed by earlychildhood training to hate either one or the other or learning as a whole. frankly, i find both fields fascinating.
p.s. I was also prom queen.
2007-10-16 23:33:17 · answer #2 · answered by prince 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, math is math, and english is english. meaning, math deals with numbers, though it has english on solving problem, but still the focus is in the number. English really doesn't have anything to do with math. And, unfortunately, very rare people blessed with multiple ability. And if you are good in English subject and math... well, that's good for you. It's a blessing.
2007-10-16 22:46:00 · answer #3 · answered by lheng:) 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Math and language are two separate parts of the brain.
2007-10-16 22:37:52 · answer #4 · answered by neon2054 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Each discipline you mentioned is housed in the opposite hemisphere of the brain.
2007-10-17 03:35:43 · answer #5 · answered by bandit 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋