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Re:Do Teachers Need to Include the History of Mathematics in... by WhitneyLand on Saturday December 24, 2016 @07:30PM (#13252259)
The opposite happened to me, no background at all and I actually ended up resenting calculus for a long time.

At some point I stumbled onto stories about newton, leibniz, and everything that drove them. It was riveting and brought the magic back.

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