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> What’s really needed is more story-focused content between basic number sense and undergraduate level math. YouTube channels like Numberphile (particularly Ta
by aoki 1y ago
> What’s really needed is more story-focused content between basic number sense and undergraduate level math. YouTube channels like Numberphile (particularly Tadashi Tokieda’s episodes that explore curious toys) are a fantastic invitation. More could exist in various forms, particularly those that transition from these delightful introductions to deeper, more complete theories while still holding on to the stories. The closest I’ve found for young children is the comic book series Beast Academy.
- h2zizzle 1y agoThere's at least one manga series focused on teaching secondary-level maths. It's a bit dry but gets the job done as an introduction. For something a bit more... specific and involved, there's Cipher Academy, a shonen series where all of the battles take the form of cryptography challenges, often based on esoteric Japanese cultural knowledge (the original English translator dropped the series because it was next to impossible to localize things like "a cipher based on mapping the Japanese syllabary to a list of prefectures").