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> Since when calculus and algebra are boring? After reading your post, it sounds like it's pretty boring until you start hitting differential equations. That'
by steego 12y ago
> Since when calculus and algebra are boring?
After reading your post, it sounds like it's pretty boring until you start hitting differential equations. That's a long time for most people to be bored with calculating before they get to the good stuff.
> Calculating is at the heart of the subject
As long the emphasis is leaving students with an understanding why it works and giving them the tools to create new methods that they can prove work.
- pbhjpbhj 12y agoI always found the symbolic manipulation to be somehow enjoyable; combining different elements, working up equations that were forgotten and tying it all together to answer a problem (abstract or otherwise). But then in day-to-day life I tend to find calm in mental arithmetic too. It's perhaps a little like practising piano - the syncopation and variance of a piece that is an accomplishment offers rewards in itself. But, nonetheless playing simple scales or arpeggios can be an almost meditative exercise.