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Why is making math a part of your "identity" preferable to seeing math as a tool you can apply to accomplish your goals, or something you can do for fun? The v
by jimbokun 5y ago
Why is making math a part of your "identity" preferable to seeing math as a tool you can apply to accomplish your goals, or something you can do for fun?
The vast majority of high school math students will not become mathematicians.
- whymauri 5y ago>So the idea is to have teachers be aware of the impact of math and education on people's identity. It is a consciousness thing. It's not a question of preferability (one view is not mutually exclusive of the other), and I didn't claim high schoolers should all become mathematicians (where did that come from?). In either case, I fail to see how training instructors to be aware of their teachings' effect on identity can be harmful. I'm not particularly scared nor threatened by the idea of it, and the idea that there's no connection between education and identity doesn't make sense to me. That's all I have to say.