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Really? I struggled with calc in school because lectures were dry proofs (without ever formally teaching how proofs work!!) and then they just told us to read t
by BaculumMeumEst 2y ago
Really? I struggled with calc in school because lectures were dry proofs (without ever formally teaching how proofs work!!) and then they just told us to read the textbook. Then I found mit ocw and ripped through the material because it was much more engaging. Never would have passed calc I-III, linear algebra, and diff eq without those lecture recordings.
- RugnirViking 2y agoIt's a sad fact that teachers are often not very good. This often has to do with the fact that they do not know what you already know, and proscribe inappropriate things for you to try next. You struggled in school, it seems, because you had a teacher very focused on proofs and you never learned proofs. This is a common problem I find in mathematics, where someone never learned one key element, and struggles to pin down why everything is so difficult for them. For many people, it can be calculus, or linear algebra, or bayeseian statistics, or fourier transforms, to name a few topics myself and people I know have had aha moments in when they finally learned.
- JustinSkycak 2y ago> This is a common problem I find in mathematics, where someone never learned one key element, and struggles to pin down why everything is so difficult for them. Reminds me of Ben Orlin's "law of the broken futon": a single missing part can, over time, warp an entire futon and render it unusable. https://horizonsaftermath.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-law-of-broken-futon.html https://horizonsaftermath.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-law-of-br...