Re:Do the math: too much calculus? (2012)
by ghaff on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @07:47PM
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>The issue imo is that teachers tend not to teach the intuitions of math, rather they focus on the mechanics of it.
Yes. I agree generally--often even at relatively advanced levels.
The stats course I took in engineering grad school was so heavy on the math that I'm not sure I appreciated what the math was in service of. By contrast when I took a less math-heavy stats course later I much better appreciated the underlying principles.
But yeah, it's very easy to turn any of these math-related topics into: memorize the formula, plug the numbers, come up with a result.
Yes. I agree generally--often even at relatively advanced levels.
The stats course I took in engineering grad school was so heavy on the math that I'm not sure I appreciated what the math was in service of. By contrast when I took a less math-heavy stats course later I much better appreciated the underlying principles.
But yeah, it's very easy to turn any of these math-related topics into: memorize the formula, plug the numbers, come up with a result.