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Encourage her to give it another try when she gets to late high school or college. I know a lot of math phds who fell out of love with math around middle school
by throwawayjava 9y ago
Encourage her to give it another try when she gets to late high school or college. I know a lot of math phds who fell out of love with math around middle school and then fell back in love during their first proof-based course in college.
- BeenThere888 9y agoYeah, this. I hated math in middle-school and early high-school. It was boring and rote. But proofs based math, and learning how to think of math as a language, instead of a collection of overly specific "solutions" crammed into my head by teachers, was the key.
- sjg007 9y agoI never got proofs. I wish I did.
- tnecniv 9y agoThe thing that made it click for me was getting a "first principles" book for something relatively simple like Linear Algebra (or some basic CS-flavored discrete math book). These books prove everything, and reading the proofs the author wrote made me recognize what you needed to do to prove something.
- sjg007 9y agoWould you recommend one?