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Yes, but your inference that having a concept of multiplication as repeated addition leads people to “not grasp mathematics” is backwards. I have seen little e
by jacobolus 7y ago
Yes, 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.