Re:The Greatest Educational Life Hack: Learning Math Ahead o...
by RealityVoid on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @12:38PM
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You learn math best by doing math. Sure, good explanations help, but sometimes dry rigorous ones are preferable since it asks you to grapple with the subject.
Re:The Greatest Educational Life Hack: Learning Math Ahead o...
by moralestapia on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @01:12PM
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>sometimes dry rigorous ones are preferable
My experience with the comments in this thread, the overwhelming majority of people I know IRL and the widespread sentiment that "Math is hard" does not seem to reflect that.
Re:The Greatest Educational Life Hack: Learning Math Ahead o...
by strikelaserclaw on Friday July 19, 2024 @11:25AM
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math is just formalizing ideas into symbols and creating rules to manipulate and understand the ideas further. It is really the "ideas" that are important but all school really teaches is the manipulation aspect of it which is a bit boring without understanding the ideas. Most of early mathematical education is of the form "assume we have so and so arcane formulation - here is what we can do with it by applying these rules whose truths you just have to memorize"
Math it's way easier than you think it is, it greatly depends on how you approach it. I really like the style of Robert Ghrist videos on YouTube.
A great tutor/video goes a long way. I wish I could share some resources but am a bit outdated on that.
The overall idea is that some people can explain math concepts in a very clear and straightforward way, while some others will write up a bunch of symbols and let you figure them out. Avoid the latter. As a note, those are usually the lowest performers in academia, lol.