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Re:Is the Drive for Success Making Our Children Sick? by tnecniv on Sunday January 03, 2016 @09:46PM (#10833756)
> I recently found a copy of my 12th grade public school math textbook. More than half of the problems are proofs. Today there are no proofs.

This was a big issue for me when I entered college. We did proofs freshman year of high school as part of geometry, but they were so simplistic that I didn't know how to write a good, real proof. Then, when I got to college math, I struggled for a long while figuring out what I needed to do to properly prove something rigorously.

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Re:Is the Drive for Success Making Our Children Sick? by analog31 on Monday January 04, 2016 @12:54AM (#10834231)
I hope the proofs made math more fun for you, not less. The similarity between proofs and programs was something that attracted my interest in both.
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Re:Is the Drive for Success Making Our Children Sick? by tnecniv on Monday January 11, 2016 @01:32PM (#10882167)
They definitely did, in conjunction with me better understanding what I was using this math for (my freshman and sophomore engineering courses were too handwavey. The somewhat informal way we were doing things actually hurt my understanding).

After the initial frustration with learning how to write a proper proof, everything got better.

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