9yo hates the math workbook I got her b/c it's mostly arithmetic drills and word problems ("math is so boring!") Is there any "higher math" book ("math is cool!") that's age appropriate? Please don't tell me I have to write my own.
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Replying to @joelgrus
Many kids (especially girls) are too smart to fall for the appeal of solving puzzles for their own sake. For them, the puzzle has to be instrumental to achieving something they actually care about. Give them projects that require arithmetic (allocation), trig (building) or logic.
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I just remembered getting to go on an archeology dig when I was about 11 and they made us set up the ropes and stakes using geometry, it was rad
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Replying to @literalbanana @joelgrus
my girlfriend was a stage designer who hated math and when I showed her how to figure out the dimensions of each part of her models she married me
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Like, on the spot?
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also correlation is totally causation
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