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Re:Legible Mathematics: Sketches of interactive arithmetic f... by Someone on Monday February 24, 2020 @01:34PM (#22406879)
I don’t think it is a given that students are good judges about what impedes them from learning.

Having said that, I personally have never had issues with notation in mathematics nor did I have the impression others I helped had. IMO, abstraction is the main stumbling block, not notation.

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Re:Legible Mathematics: Sketches of interactive arithmetic f... by Grustaf on Monday February 24, 2020 @02:14PM (#22407321)
I’m talking about the math institutions at the two universities I attended, I took a lot of phd classes. But same with students, the complaint has never been about notation. In fact the only people that seem to complain about notation is computer programmers who find it too loose, but that is precisely its power.
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