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If mathematicians believed things can’t change or improve, and we have to stick with the status quo only because it’s common and popular, we’d never have had ra
by dahart 4y ago
If mathematicians believed things can’t change or improve, and we have to stick with the status quo only because it’s common and popular, we’d never have had radians in the first place, we’d be stuck with degrees, no? Why assume that people can’t convert between turns and radians as needed, when we all already convert between degrees and radians all the time? Why not imagine a pedagogy that teaches turns and radians and degrees, giving students more flexibility than the current set rather than less?