Comment on We’re All Math People: Some of the power of math lies in the very fact that it’s made up.

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jasory@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Formally teaching pure mathematics is a bit beyond the abilities of most children or even highschoolers.

It’s like how they don’t teach inductive reasoning and proofing in statistics class, 99 percent of the people that will use it either won’t understand or care.

“It needs to have a practical application”

This is what word problems are. Describing real situations mathematically and deriving more information from them.

I feel like everyone who blames the way mathematics was taught, simply wasn’t paying attention at the time.

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