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This also stood out to me as obviously wrong in the article. Since time immemorial, we have taught math by teaching the core concepts and building on them incre
by bigstrat2003 2y ago
This also stood out to me as obviously wrong in the article. Since time immemorial, we have taught math by teaching the core concepts and building on them incrementally. Since people do successfully learn how to do math, this directly disproves the author's claim that people don't learn that way.
- singpolyma3 2y agoI wish I had ever seen math taught that way. Usually I'd is taught as "here's a bunch of example problems. Solve all the problems and hopefully intuition will magically result"
- anileated 2y agoIt may be that people successfully learn something entirely new to them from studying core principles not thanks to such an approach, but despite it. Some would say the approach unnecessarily limits the amount of people who would otherwise easily grasp the topic. Math is usually introduced by way of examples (counting apples and such), and it could be that using those more would make more complicated topics more accessible. https://worrydream.com/refs/Lockhart_2002_-_A_Mathematician's_Lament.pdf https://worrydream.com/refs/Lockhart_2002_-_A_Mathematician'...
- namaria 2y ago> Since time immemorial, we have taught math by teaching the core concepts and building on them incrementally. This is just false. Some of the earliest examples we have of what appears to be writing used in teaching contexts, it's heavily focused on repetition of examples.