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Teach kids basic arithmetic WELL, teach them logic in a fun way, find a way to get them to like reading and think critically about what they read. That's fine f
by sanoli 11y ago
Teach kids basic arithmetic WELL, teach them logic in a fun way, find a way to get them to like reading and think critically about what they read. That's fine for me. I'd do away with all the rest of math (algebra, trig, etc) and have it as optional in high school. Really, if you got the stuff above right as a kid, you don't need to learn trigonometry if you don't want to at the time.
- yellowapple 11y agoI'd personally throw in something like geometry, which (at least when I took it back in my middle school days; maybe my experience was atypical) had a heavy emphasis on mathematical proofs, how they worked, why they were important, the differences between postulates and theorems, how to prove theorems, etc. Whereas most of my prior and future math courses (particularly algebra) ended up feeling like an endless barrage of busywork, geometry forced me to actually think about what I'm doing.
- sanoli 11y agoNow that I think of it, I remember having lots of fun with geometry, trying to figure things out on my own. I still remember the first time I got to prove Pythagora's on my own, or the formula for the volume of a pyramid. It felt so awesome that I still long today for a math course where you start from zero and the teacher just guides you into figuring stuff out yourself, one by one (Pythagora's, Pi, formulas for volume, etc).