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This is how people think of Math class: "Music class is where we take out our staff paper, our teacher puts some notes on the board, and we copy them or transp
by mrcactu5 12y ago
This is how people think of Math class:
"Music class is where we take out our staff paper, our teacher puts some notes on the board, and we copy them or transpose them into a different key. We have to make sure to get the clefs and key signatures right, and our teacher is very picky about making sure we fill in our quarter-notes completely.
One time we had a chromatic scale problem and I did it right, but the teacher gave me no credit because I had the stems pointing the wrong way."
- Thrymr 12y agoAnd this is a pretty good description of how it's taught: "Well, next year they take Pre-Paint-by-Numbers. That prepares them for the main Paint-by-Numbers sequence in high school"
- nextos 12y agoThat's very sad and very true. For some reason, I stumbled upon Hubbard & Hubbard Vector Calculus a few days after first reading this essay and it stroke me as the opposite to this wrong math teaching.