Re:An alarming trend in K-12 math education: a guest post an...
by jjoonathan on Friday December 03, 2021 @02:50PM
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Yes, Geometry makes the funnest puzzles :-)
Believe me, it pains me to suggest bumping it back. Introductory proofy linear algebra just hits a quadruple home run: it's astonishingly useful, it's getting moreso, it's simple enough to remain age appropriate, and it can serve as an intro to proofs. As much as I enjoy geometry puzzles, I just don't see how they compete with that.
For the true fans, of course, the answer today & in this hypothetical future is still to learn both.
But imagine that you never heard of concepts behind it.
It'd just become a more-or-less useful artefact. And in no time it would devolve into a useless ... thing so to say, a decoration, as you lose knowledge how to apply it.