Re:An update on the campaign to defend serious math educatio...
by RangerScience on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @05:16PM
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Hmm. Alright, I can see solid arithmetic being good for introducing the concept of a variable...
...but the only time I ever saw significant numbers when actually doing math was in toy problems that deliberately chose weird, big coefficients, where the arithmetic part was by far the least significant.
...but the only time I ever saw significant numbers when actually doing math was in toy problems that deliberately chose weird, big coefficients, where the arithmetic part was by far the least significant.