My 10-year-old daughter was rolled in a ball crying yesterday, because of her maths homework. Maths class should not make people feel this way.
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My own conviction is that the next-most important message to convey is that math takes time, and there is never any hurry. Everyone makes stupid mistakes, even the greatest masters the world has ever known. They don't matter. What matters is beauty: making it, and enjoying it.
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I'd suggest telling your daughter that Leonhard Euler, one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, needed seven years to come up with an explanation of a very simple and natural pattern involving ordinary whole numbers. And that Euler made mistakes a six-year-old wouldn't.
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