Math education: It’s not about numbers, it’s about learning how to think

Re:Math education: It’s not about numbers, it’s about learni... by BeenThere888 on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @11:38AM (#14745049)

Yeah, this.

I hated math in middle-school and early high-school. It was boring and rote.

But proofs based math, and learning how to think of math as a language, instead of a collection of overly specific "solutions" crammed into my head by teachers, was the key.

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Re:Math education: It’s not about numbers, it’s about learni... by sjg007 on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @05:20PM (#14748192)

I never got proofs. I wish I did.

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Re:Math education: It’s not about numbers, it’s about learni... by tnecniv on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @10:23PM (#14749718)

The thing that made it click for me was getting a "first principles" book for something relatively simple like Linear Algebra (or some basic CS-flavored discrete math book). These books prove everything, and reading the proofs the author wrote made me recognize what you needed to do to prove something.

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Re:Math education: It’s not about numbers, it’s about learni... by sjg007 on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @10:52PM (#14749808)

Would you recommend one?

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