Sherman Dorn

Nothing fuzzy about fuzzy math

George W. Bush is probably responsible for people calling constructivist math advocacy "fuzzy math". There is a field called fuzzy logic, and while I know very little about it, I'm irritated that the former president's maladroit use of English is messing up technical terminology. Fuzzy logic is a useful tool in engineering, and while Lotfi Zadeh's original term may not be perfectly descriptive, math teachers should be the last to misuse a term that's in their own discipline.