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“Anyone can do math”
- jimmyvalmer 7y agoSummarized: "Math skill is proportional to time spent and aptitude." Verbosity is an existential threat.
- ColinWright 7y agoThat's a completely inaccurate "summary" - what you have said here is a total misrepresentation of the article.
- jimmyvalmer 7y agoHow about this: "Don't despair! If you lack aptitude, you can make up for it with time spent!"
- ThrowawayR2 7y agoStill utterly incorrect. To distill the article's own summary: "1. Everyone is capable of doing arithmetic, understanding fractions, percents, basic algebra and graphing, basic probability and statistics, and should be able to read a graph in a newspaper or hear a statistic on the radio without getting flustered. 2. Everyone deserves to see some beautiful ideas of mathematics. 3. We need to teach like anyone and everyone in our classroom could have a gift for math that’s about to manifest… because they just might, and we may never know unless they’re given the opportunity."