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 ng12 on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @02:53PM (#14746922)

First, 16 is still pretty young. Second, just because you didn't have STEM hobbies when you were young doesn't mean you weren't given the framework to excel at STEM. It's not "you learn math or you don't", rather the argument is "you develop the framework for mathematical thinking or you don't".

For what it's worth I also did better with literature and history than math when I was young. Also, I struggled to pass Calculus 2 but breezed through upper level CS courses. It's a very fuzzy thing.

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Re:Math education: It’s not about numbers, it’s about learni... by Merovius on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @01:53AM (#14750410)

> First, 16 is still pretty young.

Depends on what we are talking about. The post I was responding to was talking about "the first years of education" and with 16, we are way past that.

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