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Hm, I've always felt bottom up more difficult to learn. I always found it helpful to first have an overview, a mental map of sorts, of the high-level details, s
by carlmr 2y ago
Hm, I've always felt bottom up more difficult to learn. I always found it helpful to first have an overview, a mental map of sorts, of the high-level details, so that when I looked at the details later I could make connections and know where to "put" this knowledge relative to other things.
With bottom up I always feel lost because I don't know what it's useful for, the relationships to other pieces of knowledge, etc.
- JustinSkycak 2y agoIt can definitely be helpful to take a top-down approach in planning out your overarching learning goals. However, the learning itself has to occur bottom-up. Especially in math. Math is a skill hierarchy, and if you cannot execute a lower-level skill consistently and accurately, you will not be able to build more advanced skills on top of it. I wrote about this recently here if you're interested: https://www.justinmath.com/how-to-learn-machine-learning-top-down-or-bottom-up/ https://www.justinmath.com/how-to-learn-machine-learning-top...
- SoftTalker 2y agoIt's good to have a high level view of what your ultimate goals are, but if you are lacking too much foundational knowledge you can't even conceive of it. Especially in a subject like math, everything builds from the bottom up. We don't give first graders an overview of differential equations and their applications when we start teaching them addition and subtraction.