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Re:How to Force Your Kids to Do Math? by hilbert42 on Sunday April 20, 2025 @05:39AM (#43742707)
"At school they keep trying to make them memorize useful phrases, like a tourist that goes to Paris…."

Like learning dozens of trig identities without any explanation about why one would need them. As I've mentioned elsewhere learning math for the sake of it isn't enough. For most of us math has to have relevance, and for that we have to link it to things in the real world.

Re:How to Force Your Kids to Do Math? by annerxox on Sunday April 20, 2025 @08:31AM (#43743383)
We can't even figure out that there are bottom up vs top down learners.

Instead we will just continue to slog along with the same poor system. Math wise, completely at the expense of the top down learners.

Re:How to Force Your Kids to Do Math? by hilbert42 on Sunday April 20, 2025 @11:27PM (#43748309)
Right, you'd think by now we could do a little better.