Timeline for When asked to by a religious university, how can an instructor make a mathematics course spiritually uplifting?
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| Jan 21, 2019 at 15:53 | comment | added | Dan Christensen | @Dominique So "Christian" has come to mean anti-science in the US? Very sad. | |
| Jan 18, 2019 at 10:30 | comment | added | Dominique |
The basis of mathematics is numbers. The mentioned university is a Christian one, which means that they are based on the bible. The bible being a set of books, one of them called Numeri. :-)
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| Jan 18, 2019 at 10:22 | comment | added | Dan Christensen | If the university has some liberal tendencies and accepts evolution, what could be more spiritual than the notion that all living things on Earth today have a common ancestor? You and a tree in the forest are but distant cousins! The mathematics of genetics and paleontology help us understand these things. | |
| Jan 18, 2019 at 10:00 | comment | added | Dan Christensen | You might check out the Vatican Observatory. vaticanobservatory.va/content/specolavaticana/en.html Mathematics will be a big part of their work. | |
| Jan 16, 2019 at 14:44 | answer | added | kcrisman | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 3, 2014 at 11:20 | vote | accept | Brian Rushton | ||
| Apr 2, 2014 at 15:42 | comment | added | user507 | I downvoted this question and explained the reason for my downvote in a comment. My comment was deleted, however. See meta.matheducators.stackexchange.com/questions/267/… | |
| Apr 2, 2014 at 1:38 | comment | added | msh210 | Not relevant to BYU, but for Jewish schools there's judaism.stackexchange.com/q/22870. | |
| Apr 1, 2014 at 23:06 | comment | added | user230 | @quid Excuse me for the interrupt. Yesterday I saw a comment about Godel's ontological proof for existence of God here. I think it was related and useful. Also there were some other useful comments here. Where are they now? | |
| Apr 1, 2014 at 22:40 | answer | added | user230 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 1, 2014 at 19:56 | comment | added | quid | I protected this question for now; this mainly just means users that do not have at least gained 10 points on the site cannot answer, which can be useful for quite visible and possibly controversial questions. Thus it is a lot less restrictive than closure. But feel free to start a discussion if you disagree. | |
| Apr 1, 2014 at 19:50 | history | protected | quid | ||
| Apr 1, 2014 at 19:00 | answer | added | pbertsch | timeline score: -5 | |
| Apr 1, 2014 at 14:31 | comment | added | Robert Cartaino | <comment conversation removed> Comments are here to ask clarification or to help improve the post. But when comments veer into a chatroom-style debates and obliquely-related discourse, it's time to take it to a chat room or another more-appropriate forum. Thanks. | |
| Apr 1, 2014 at 5:46 | answer | added | BirdieRumia | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 1, 2014 at 2:30 | answer | added | Neil | timeline score: -4 | |
| Apr 1, 2014 at 1:39 | comment | added | Brian Rushton | @Roland in other disciplines, the teachers often ask the studentx to write papers on how what they learned relates to their beliefs. | |
| Mar 31, 2014 at 15:42 | answer | added | Dave Harmon | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 31, 2014 at 14:27 | answer | added | James S. Cook | timeline score: 16 | |
| Mar 31, 2014 at 14:26 | comment | added | JRN | Does your university have a definition of "spiritually uplifting"? Does it, for example, consider it possible to be spiritual without being religious? Does it consider it possible to be spiritual while belonging to a religion different from the university's? (For the record, I am currently teaching at a Catholic university.) | |
| Mar 31, 2014 at 14:19 | answer | added | Roland | timeline score: 10 | |
| Mar 31, 2014 at 14:18 | answer | added | Daniel Moskovich | timeline score: 10 | |
| Mar 31, 2014 at 14:01 | answer | added | user173 | timeline score: 5 | |
| Mar 31, 2014 at 13:40 | answer | added | Ken W. Smith | timeline score: 15 | |
| Mar 31, 2014 at 13:31 | comment | added | Roland | This is an interesting question for sure. Can you give more example how spiritual uplifting works in an educational context? | |
| Mar 31, 2014 at 13:25 | history | asked | Brian Rushton | CC BY-SA 3.0 |