Reading through the proposal - I suspect that in practice it will include a great deal of History of Mathematics (which is fantastic) and simply use socially relevant contexts while teaching the basics. Those approaches are tried and true ways of keeping students motivated.
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This is the most ridiculously disingenuous interpretation of that quote
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Replying to @arthur_affect @XFitNYC and
The screenshot is not saying that there are some questions that are universally irrelevant or should not be asked It is stating the obvious fact that mathematics is a tool used by human beings for human purposes, and that you cannot call any tool inferior without context
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Replying to @arthur_affect @XFitNYC and
That's the whole thing that Kareem Carr - who has more formal expertise in the academic discipline of mathematics than you or I - was talking about The more of a sophisticated understanding you have of math the less need you have to sneer at or "correct" laypeople
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Replying to @arthur_affect @XFitNYC and
Because you see that all of math is just a tool we make up in order to accomplish some goal, and in that basic principle the fisherman in their boat is no different from the academic in their ivory tower
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Replying to @arthur_affect @XFitNYC and
The only question to ask about the way some random 9-to-5er understands numbers in order to make change or whatever is *does it work for them*
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Replying to @arthur_affect @XFitNYC and
Just like it's the half-educated high school English teacher who spends a lot of time correcting people's grammar and it's the highly educated PhD linguist who understands what an obnoxious, rude and pointless thing this is to do
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(By the way, you don't have to agree with the characterization of "math is an art and not a science" but it has a pedigree It's the whole point of A Mathematician's Lament by Paul Lockhart from 2002, which was itself riffing on GH Hardy's 1940 essay A Mathematician's Apology)
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