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A comment on Marvin Minsky: What makes mathematics hard to learn? (2008). Parent comment

Re:Marvin Minsky: What makes mathematics hard to learn? (2008) by justinhj on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @02:19PM (#10975282)
If Richard Feynman taught our children physics that would be great too. Your bar is unrealistically high I feel. I'm pretty sure there's a large percentage of math teachers that want to teach math and enjoy teaching it. I'm not sure how much freedom they have to teach it their way though.
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Re:Marvin Minsky: What makes mathematics hard to learn? (2008) by pdeuchler on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @05:08PM (#10976544)
Obviously we can't all be taught by Feynman or Minksy, but given the most common answer to "What subject do you dislike the most" is "math" we probably need to do better. It's also a vicious cycle, we're raising our future math teachers to dislike math
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