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More accurately, it’s a colloquialism.
by zaroth 7y ago
More accurately, it’s a colloquialism.
- ncmncm 7y agoThe number of people who fail to overcome it is close to the number of people who never get a grasp of what mathematics is about. Ask them. It comes up all the time.
- jacobolus 7y agoYes, but your inference that having a concept of multiplication as repeated addition leads people to “not grasp mathematics” is backwards. I have seen little evidence that people who become interested in mathematics have an unusually difficult time “overcoming” this viewpoint.
- ncmncm 7y agoTheir difficulty letting go of repeated addition leads them to consider mathematics opaque, and they lose interest.