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Math teaching until upper years of undergrad is "The Technical History of Mathematics", which really could be taught very well by teachers yoinked by a time mac
by mrybczyn 8y ago
Math teaching until upper years of undergrad is "The Technical History of Mathematics", which really could be taught very well by teachers yoinked by a time machine from the 1800s...
My favorite math teacher was a linguist by training, but had a knack for getting across the intuition behind Linear Algebra. Some of my mathematics researcher acquaintances mentioned that in teaching their own children mathematics, they focus on clarity of thinking and language...
Here's a relevant RPF quote:
"Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning."
― Richard Feynman