Good selection of comments re the recent NYT piece by @barbaraoakley. My own feeling is similar to @jamestanton’shttps://twitter.com/i/moments/1027325088528572416 …
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The world abounds in persons who practiced math sedulously in their youth, found the experience actively miserable, and chose subsequently to have nothing whatever to do with the subject in any of its forms.
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The half-life for the decay of those skills attained by practice of this sort is not long; typically a year or two suffices to efface them pretty completely. (Indeed, in many cases the half-life is best measured in weeks.)
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