If you make it dry and boring enough. Start with calculating the reproduction rates of people who go at it like... well, rabbits... and there you've got the Fibonacci sequence. From there on out, it's dry statistics and formulae all the way ;)<br> <br clear="all">Carl Eastlund<br> <br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:23 AM, michael rice <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nowgate@yahoo.com">nowgate@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;" valign="top"> So, mandatory sex education should result in ... um, a lower birth rate?<br><br>Michael<br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 11/19/09, Jon Rafkind <i><<a href="mailto:rafkind@cs.utah.edu" target="_blank">rafkind@cs.utah.edu</a>></i></b> wrote:<br> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Jon Rafkind <<a href="mailto:rafkind@cs.utah.edu" target="_blank">rafkind@cs.utah.edu</a>><br>Subject: [plt-scheme] mathematicians lament<br> To: "PLT-Scheme Mailing List" <<a href="mailto:plt-scheme@list.cs.brown.edu" target="_blank">plt-scheme@list.cs.brown.edu</a>><br>Date: Thursday, November 19, 2009, 10:28 AM<div><div></div><div class="h5"> <br><br><div><a href="http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf</a><br><br>This is a comment on the state of teaching mathematics. I'm not sure how old it is but a few parallels can probably be drawn to computer science (or maybe will be drawn in a few years). The first 3 pages are pretty amusing, at least.</div></div></div></blockquote></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote></div><br>