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You don't have to call it "graph k-coloring". Especially when so much of math is taught as a solved thing, it's exciting to know there are problems which nobod
by panic 11y ago
You don't have to call it "graph k-coloring". Especially when so much of math is taught as a solved thing, it's exciting to know there are problems which nobody knows how to solve. You can learn a lot by trying to solve these problems yourself.
- VLM 11y ago>it's exciting to know there are problems which nobody knows how to solve Not sure this fits in with the systemic cultural goal of authoritarianism and conformity at all costs. I mean we both know its a good goal in an abstract sense, but its directly at odds with what we pay them money to indoctrinate into kids. "Sometimes your leaders can't tell you what to think because they don't know" isn't exactly standard authoritarian conditioning. And "think and imagine" isn't standard conformity-inducing conditioning. Furthermore "here's something important, but we can't graph a metric result on a graph" is inherently insubordinate to existing leadership dogma.
- panic 11y agoWho do you know who pays money explicitly to indoctrinate "authoritarianism and conformity at all costs" into kids? It's true that schools tend to emphasize these values, but I think that's a side-effect of the structure of the system, not an explicit goal. Individual teachers can and often do encourage "thinking and imagining".