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I know so little about mathematics that it is impossible for me to know what sites would be of any use. I do not think mathematically, nor do I find the tool all that useful. I feel about the same way about math as many science students I met while working in Student Services felt about writing essays..."Iiiii...dooonn't...thiiiink...sooo, thank you very much".I even redid my k-12 math at the university level in order to upgrade it. It was a fascinating course. I saw math as an integrated system, and how it all worked, but that is where it ended. As soon as I stopped using it, it just evaporated.
Statistics are somewhat interesting, though they are taught very poorly I hunch. Now there are computers and calculators, I can black box the required statistics so as to be able to use the tools, but that means knowing the principles very well so that the underlying meanings of data analyzed in that way can be properly interpreted. As my capacity for estimating is so low, my unease at the risk factor of having a mistake is extremely high. Excel and SPSS are fascinating programs, but I really don't spend a lot of time around them...calculators either, for that matter.
I have a fairly accurate intuitive sense of money, but I do not process that formally, it is just intuitive. For example when I finally did the books up on a hundred thousand dollar project, I was within a few dollars (up) of where I should have been...and that was quite convoluted. However, I hate doing financial bookwork, even the computerized kind...though that at least eliminates the entry errors.
I gather that math is basic to the sciences but that is just hearsay to me. I really wouldn't know. When I encounter a suggestion such as the one in Moren Levesque's article which suggests that mathematics would be a great tool for organizational development, my reaction is "what would one want to do that for?". Maybe, on the other hand, math is the only way some people could gain access to organizational development, which others of us grasp intuitively.
Of course, this relationship with mathematics is reflected in the links I provide for my own and others' use. They are fun links, with little advanced level substance, for, as I situate myself in relation to this discipline, it is as Pluto to the Sun - the farthest out. These sites are some of the ones which would have made my math days in school at least a little less painful
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